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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The policy proposals on this page have been archived. You can see at a glance if they were accepted and adopted by the RIPE community or withdrawn at any stage.

2006-04: Contact E-Mail Address Requirements
State:
Withdrawn
Archived Date:
February 2007
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group
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Reason for Withdrawal: Withdrawn by the proposer and the Address Policy Working Group chair as not enough consensus was reached.
2005-12: 4-Byte AS Number Policy
State:
Accepted
Archived Date:
September 2006
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group
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.
2005-02: IP Assignments for Anycasting DNS
State:
Accepted
Archived Date:
September 2006
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group

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.

2006-03: LIR-PARTITIONED Status for IPv6
State:
Withdrawn
Archived Date:
July 2006
Working Group:
Database Working Group
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.
2005-03: IPv6 Initial Allocation
State:
Withdrawn
Archived Date:
June 2006
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group
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Reason for Withdrawal: Withdrawn by proposer who thought this proposal is superceded by 2006-02, IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy.
2005-01: HD-ratio Proposal
State:
Withdrawn
Archived Date:
May 2006
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group
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.
2005-10: Consumer Broadband Monitoring Feasibility
State:
Withdrawn
Archived Date:
May 2006
Working Group:
Test Traffic Working Group
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.
2005-11: Multicast Monitoring on RIPE NCC Test Traffic Boxes
State:
Withdrawn
Archived Date:
May 2006
Working Group:
Test Traffic Working Group
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.
2005-09: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Policy for Allocation of IPv6 Blocks to Regional Internet Registries
State:
Accepted
Archived Date:
April 2006
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group
Summary: The proposal was to have a policy governing the allocation of IPv6 address space from the IANA to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).
2005-04: IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy - definition for "End-Site"
State:
Withdrawn
Archived Date:
January 2006
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group

Summary: There are various terms for "end-site" in the IPv6 allocation and assignment policy (ripe-267) and the RFC3177. We need to have a final definition for "End-Site" to establish clear internal assignment policies.

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