[eix-wg] Re: [address-policy-wg] 2010-07 New Policy Proposal (Ambiguity cleanup on IPv6 Address Space Policy for IXP)

On 21/10/2010 15:18, Andy Davidson wrote:
> Now that IPv6 PI is available to all networks, in addition to Internet
> Exchange Points, perhaps we do not need to have a special policy for
> IXPs at all, but I see possible future value in IXPs sitting inside
> 2001:7f8/32, so I think it should remain.

On the question at hand, the RIPE NCC's interpretation of the word "open"
has caused a lot of trouble.  It would probably be better to remove it
rather than keep it.

>From the point of view of keeping the rules short and sweet, I would see
value in scrapping both RIPE-233 (ipv6 for root servers) and RIPE-451 (ipv6
for IXPs), and take their essence into the "IPv6 Address Allocation and
Assignment Policy" policy document.  It would certainly be possible to note
that the RIPE NCC may assign IXPs space from certain netblocks.

But in the general case, duplication of policy documents is not useful.

Nick