Archived Policy Proposals

Summary: This proposal is to have the RIPE NCC allocate address space to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) based on their one-year needs. In other words, it suggests setting a maximum allocation period of 12 months.

Summary: This proposal suggested that working and up-to-date contact e-mail addresses should be maintained at all times for address space that is registered in the RIPE Database.

Reason for Withdrawal: Withdrawn by the proposer and the Address Policy Working Group chair as not enough consensus was reached.

Summary: This policy proposal details a set of actions and associated dates for RIR AS Number allocation policies to assist in an orderly transition to use of the 4-byte AS Number space.

Summary: To enable country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) and global Top Level Domain (gTLD) name server operators to provide their DNS service using shared unicast technology, RIPE NCC may assign one IPv4 and/or one IPv6 prefix to each TLD operator.

Summary: This proposal is to have a new status for IPv6 address space as "LIR-PARTITIONED".

Reason for Withdrawal: The proposer decided that the proposal was no longer necessary.

Summary: The proposal is to change the IPv6 Initial Allocation criteria outlined in the "IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy". The proposed change is to remove "have a plan for making at least 200 /48 assignments to other organisations within two years" and to remove the reference to "/48s" as the assignment size.

Reason for Withdrawal: Withdrawn by proposer who thought this proposal is superceded by 2006-02, IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy.

Summary: The proposal is to change the further allocation criteria for IPv4 as described in ripe-324: "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region".

Reason for Withdrawal: Withdrawn by proposer who felt that as there had been a number of objections, consensus had not been reached.

Summary: This is a proposal to have the RIPE NCC, as a neutral body, develop a way of measuring performance for consumer broadband networks. The proposal requests funding for a limited deployment prototype with the purpose of assessing industry and consumer acceptance, functional requirements and technical issues.

Reason for Withdrawal: During the discussion phase, the working group decided that the RIPE NCC should do the work and that there was no need to complete the full PDP cycle for this proposal.

Summary: A proposal to add testing of multicast connectivity between the RIPE NCC Test Traffic boxes that are connected to multicast-capable networks.

Reason for Withdrawal: During the discussion phase, the working group decided that the RIPE NCC should do the work and that there was no need to complete the full PDP cycle for this proposal.

Summary: The proposal was to have a policy governing the allocation of IPv6 address space from the IANA to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).