[address-policy-wg] RE: [policy-announce] 2009-06 New Policy Proposal (Removing Routing Requirements from the IPv6 Address Allocation Policy)

Hello Frederic,

>>> we do not support this proposal and  we would garant routing for min
>>> ipv6-PI block assignement.
>> RIPE NCC cannot guarantee anything regarding routing.
> 
> yes we know.
> 
> but we suggest that may be a good rule to write somewhere that it's ask
> to LIR to garant routing.
> 
> so we do not support this 2009-06. because this confirm to let choice
> for operator so it let choice to not garant routing.

I fully agree that we need to encourage good routing practice. Fortunately we 
have a working group at RIPE devoted to this topic. Unfortunately, this is not 
a document belonging to the routing working group.

I think that this is more than an academic distinction; there has long been a 
reluctance to have addressing requirements polluted by routing requirements, 
which change on different timelines and are subject to different pressures. In 
particular, it is unwise to try to base addressing requirements based on 
routing policy of the day, since this is unlikely to lead to the efficient use 
of address space. This is already a live consideration, as became evident 
during the last RIPE meeting.

For that reason, I see the change that this proposal would bring about as being 
a useful cleanup. I think everyone agrees that we need to aggregate our 
announcements properly, and the routing-wg needs to review that (and re-review 
it) on its own timelines, without causing a conflict on the addressing policy 
when no conflict is necessary.

If we do not make the change, then we will have to come back repeatedly every 
time the routing best practice changes - or risk a serious conflict in policy.

Does this reassure you on this proposal?

Best regards,
Dave

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