Re: IPv6 request form for Internet Exchange Points

[David Kessens <]

Steve,

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:18:18PM +0100, Steve Walker wrote:
>  
> >  > We would like to ask you to suspend the proposed policy until we have
> >  > had a chance to ask the RIPE community for approval.
> > 
> > Please don't!
> 
> Agreed!!! I understand the need to ensure complete consensus regarding
> allocation, but *please* can we aim for a temporary work around to allow 
> us to get an allocation using the existing document.
> 
> We could review the interim allocations once the consensus is finally
> reached, and supply any new information then _if_ needed. But as Robert
> says, this has gone on far too long already!

Please don't get us wrong.
We are not aiming for complete consensus.

The problem that we had was that we didn't had a final proposal submitted to
the mailing list. We did have a draft and lot's of comments.

What we usualy do in this kind of situations is that RIPE NCC submits a 
final proposal to the workinggroup that incorporates the comments.

The working group then gets a final chance to voice major objections,
and if no major problems are uncovered, the policy becomes
effective and gets published as a RIPE document (there is a RIPE document
for the request form but no document that describes the actual policy
on how you will be judged when you submit a request). The problem this time
was that there was no final proposal on the list with the actual policy
and I didn't see a RIPE document either. We didn't feel that this is
a good way to introduce new policy.

We already asked for a slot on the next RIPE meeting for closure on this topic.
However, we have heard your comments loud and clear :-) so we are working 
with the RIPE NCC to get a final proposal out much quicker and get approval
from the community by asking for approval on the mailing list before
the next meeting.

I hope that addresses your concerns.

David K.
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