Policy Proposals

Ensuring Efficient Use of Historical IPv4 Resources

This was a proposal to require documentation of all address resources held when assessing a RIPE NCC member's eligibility for further IPv4 address space.

Adding Reference to Sponsoring LIR in inetnum, inet6num and aut-num objects

This is a proposal to add a reference to sponsoring LIR in inetnum, inet6num and aut-num objects to increase the possibility of abuse tracking and handling.

Frequent Update Request

This proposal suggests to have the minimum assignment size for PI assignments to be a /24 when routing is a major issue for a multihoming End User.

Global Policy for post exhaustion IPv4 allocation mechanisms by the IANA
Post-depletion IPv4 address recycling

This proposal intends to define better how the address management of returned IPv4 address space will be performed when the final /8 policy comes into effect.

Allocating/Assigning Resources to the RIPE NCC

This proposal sets out how the RIPE NCC can allocate/assign resources to itself.

Extension of the Minimum Size for IPv6 Initial Allocation

This proposal modifies the eligibility for an organisation to receive an initial IPv6 allocation up to a /29. This is in order to enable small LIRs to deploy IPv6 using “IPv6 Rapid Deployment”, also known as “6rd”, as defined in RFC 5969 in a manner that does not encourage issuing a single /64 to end customers when an LIR has a minimum allocation of /32.

Safeguarding future IXPs with IPv4 space

This policy proposal will permit the operators in the RIPE NCC service region to continue building successful Internet Exchange Point communities after IPv4 depletion.

Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE NCC Database

This is a proposal to introduce a new contact attribute named "abuse-c:", which can be included in inetnum, inet6num and aut-num objects.

Removal of multihomed requirement for IPv6 PI