Exchange point interim policy

[David Kessens <]

The final date for comments on the proposed interim policy for ipv6
address allocations for Internet exchange points has passed.

Since posting the interim conclusions, the direction of the discussion
has not fundamentally changed. Therefore, we believe that we can ask
the RIPE NCC to publish the proposed policy now, to clearly mark it as
an interim policy and to start making the first allocations (with /64
allocations made out of fully reserved /48's and all allocations made
out of one common block of address space).

We would like to emphasize that this is the first version of the
policy. It's pretty clear from the discussions on the list that though
the policy is approved, there are still some issues that need more
discussion. It looks like that many people felt that it was more
important to get a policy in place rather sooner than later despite
that they might not agree with all details in the policy.

We have asked the RIPE NCC to reserve a slot at the next RIPE meeting
to discuss the remaining issues and make recommendations to the RIPE
NCC for improvements to the interim policy.

Issues that we currently have on our list include:

- how to proceed from the interim policy ?!?
- default /64 or /48 allocation size
- do we want to have this space allocated from a special block,
  may be even block that is used by all RIRs for this purpose
- what documentation is needed to get an allocation
- is there any need to document allocations in the RIPE database,
  and if so, how ?!?
- general wording of the policy

Don't hesitate to contact us if you want to have other issues
discussed as well. For discussions on the maillist, we suggest that
you post your mail only to the lir-wg list.

Thanks,

Fearghas McKay     David Kessens
EIX-WG Chair       IPv6 wg Chair
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