[address-policy-wg] 2014-04 New Draft Document and Impact Analysis Published (Removing IPv6 Requirement for Receiving Space from the Final /8)

* Marco Schmidt

>     https://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2014-04

It's been shown that the current /22 IPv6 requirement causes difficulties
in a particular corner case where the applicant has actually already
obtained an IPv6 non-PA delegation and are most likely making use of it
too (since returning/renumbering is problematic). This is exactly the
opposite of the desired effect of fostering IPv6 deployment, indeed, it
could be considered as penalising IPv6 deployment.

I believe that at this point in time, the community's awareness and use
of IPv6 isn't likely to increase further by keeping the /22 IPv6
requirement. In a nutshell: LIRs who have no interest in IPv6 won't
start actual deployment even if the /22 IPv6 requirement forces them to
obtain an IPv6 allocation, while LIRs who do have an interest in  IPv6
will be perfectly able to obtain and deploy IPv6 without the /22 IPv6
requirement present.

Given the above, I think it is time to remove it completely. That seems
the simplest and cleanest solution.

+1

Tore