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Roland Perry
roland at internetpolicyagency.com
Thu Nov 21 17:40:53 CET 2013
In message <5648A8908CCB564EBF46E2BC904A75B19681060D2B at EXVPMBX100-1.exc.icann.org>, at 07:52:34 on Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda at icann.org> writes >> Where is the "running code" when it come to (eg) denying IXPs the right >> to have provider-independent IPv6 addresses (as was the case for some >> considerable time). > >I have to disagree. I don't think there was any "considerable time." > >ripe-196 was published in mid-1999 and documented the "Provisional IPv6 >Assignment and Allocation Policy." It was called the "bootstrap" policy at >the time and was intended as a 'shakedown' to allow the first 100 >allocations across all three RIR regions (this was before LACNIC and then >AFRINIC achieved recognition, in-line with ICP-2). The idea was to find >out what was good and what needed to change for a more permanent policy. >It was an experiment. > >At the end of June 2002, ripe-246 documented the policy that had been >developed based on the experience gained through ripe-196. As you note, it >did not cater to IXPs but that problem was solved about six weeks later, >with the publication ripe-256 in early August, which documented "IPv6 >Address Space Policy for Internet Exchange Points." I remember this being an issue at RIPE meetings in 2000. But aside from the fog over the timescale, can you give us a quick run-down of the relevance to this issue of "running code"? After all, the purpose of this list (and the WG) is to foster co-operation and capacity building with other stakeholder groups not familiar with IETF (and other technical) jargon. -- Roland Perry
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