[address-policy-wg] Request about homologation of policy documents

Hi Kurt, 

The AP-WG Chairs are planning ( as it is quiet in the AP-WG these days anyway .. ) to use the time to see if we need to review all current allocation / assignment policies for v4, v6 and ASn's.  

This will be part of the discussions starting during the RIPE82 meeting. 

We will have a presentation on the topic about various types of IP space.. ( administrative types.. ) as they are technically all the same..  

It could be that the policies will be impacted after having that discussion .. or that the WG decides that we should review things how we look at certain policies. 

So yes,  let's take this into the discussion, and pick this up on the RIPE82 AP-WG meeting after that discussion about the above topic. 

Regards,
Erik Bais 

PS. I'm glad that the RIPE-733-61 document does have the requirement in there to return the space ... 



On 06/04/2021, 17:19, "address-policy-wg on behalf of Kurt Kayser" <address-policy-wg-bounces at ripe.net on behalf of Kurt.Kayser at online.de> wrote:

    Dear RIPE friends,
    
    I have scanned the current address policy documents and I have some
    questions about homologation between a couple of topics.
    
    
    There are 2 main areas of concern, which I would like to discuss:
    
    1. Validity of RIPE-451 -  (IPv6 address space policy for IXPs.) aged
    well since 2009.
    
       Option 1: drop this document entirely - the pointer for the document
    "Obtaining the address space" (RIPE-575) is anyway outdated/obsoleted.
    
       Option 2: Integrate a relevant paragraph in the RIPE-738 (IPv6
    address allocation and assignment policy) successor document?
    
       For comparison: RIPE-733 (IPv4 address ---) this area is mentioned in
    Section 6.1 - mainly due to minimal resources left to use.
    
    
    2. Comparing Sections 6.x from RIPE-733 (IPv4 adresses allocation and
    assignment policy) with RIPE-738 (IPv6 address allocation and assignment
    policy)
    
       There are very nice paragraphs in Section 6.2 (network
    infrastructure) and 6.3 (validity of an assignment) which I miss as
    counterpart in RIPE-738.
    
    
    One would assume that there should somewhat similar approaches on how to
    assign and document used address space.
    
    There are also other areas that could be cleaned up (such as transfers 
    - completely moved out of these documents or extended?)
    
    Suggestion: why not keep the same section numbering for identical topics?
    
    
    Best regards,
    
    Kurt Kayser