Archived Policy Proposals
The policy proposals on this page have been archived. You can see at a glance if they were accepted and adopted by the RIPE community or withdrawn at any stage.
- State:
- Withdrawn
- Archived Date:
- September 2026
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary:
This proposal aimed to reduce the operational burden that operators experience when working with PI and to clarify some long-standing issues in the IPv6 addressing policy.
Reason for withdrawal:
The proposers decided to withdraw the proposal based on the feedback received.
- State:
- Withdrawn
- Archived Date:
- July 2026
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: This proposal aimed to simplify the requirements for new ASNs, while preventing the exponential exhaustion of 32-bit ASN space.
Reason for withdrawal: The proposer decided to work on a new proposal based on the feedback received.
- State:
- Withdrawn
- Archived Date:
- February 2026
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: This proposal aimed to change the initial IPv6 allocation size from up to /29 to up to /28 and allow the extension of one IPv6 allocation per LIR up to /28 without justification.
Reason for withdrawal: The proposer did not feel that any further redrafting of the proposal would achieve consensus.
- Archived Date:
- October 2025
- Working Group:
- Routing Working Group
Summary: This proposal provided a mandate to the RIPE NCC to revoke resource certificates associated with longtime non-functional CAs to reduce Relying Party workloads.
- State:
- Accepted
- Archived Date:
- April 2024
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: This proposal introduced the AGGREGATED-BY-LIR status for IPv4 PA assignments to reduce LIR efforts in registration and maintenance.
- State:
- Accepted
- Archived Date:
- October 2023
- Working Group:
- RIPE NCC Services Working Group
Summary: This policy proposal aimed to allow holders of resources registered with the RIPE NCC to inform the RIPE NCC that certain resources must not be transferred for a certain amount of time.
- State:
- Accepted
- Archived Date:
- September 2023
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: This policy modifies the default size of IPv4 assignments for IXPs from a /24 to /26 and clarifies the return of the assignments previously issued for their IXP peering LAN.
- State:
- Accepted
- Archived Date:
- July 2023
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: This proposal set the minimum assignment size to a /24 and allowed routing requirements to justify the request for more than a /24 for research purposes.
- Archived Date:
- November 2022
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: The goal of this proposal was to change the registration of IPv4 assignments from mandatory to optional.
Reason for withdrawal: The proposer decided to withdraw this proposal, feeling that a new proposal would be more suitable for including the suggestions and feedback provided by the community during the discussion phase.
- State:
- Withdrawn
- Archived Date:
- November 2022
- Working Group:
- Database Working Group
Summary: The goal of this proposal was to allow the publication of verified Personal Data in the RIPE Database only when justified by its purpose.
Reason for withdrawal: The proposer felt that the scope of this proposal was too wide and decided to withdraw the proposal. Raised concerns like the potential consequences of the consent based publication of personal data and the efficacy of their verification might be addressed in future discrete proposals.