[db-wg] New Draft Documents for review: IPv4 Policy & Status Attribute in Inetnum objects

Dear Colleagues,

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce the publication of a draft of the 
updated RIPE IPv4 policy document, “IPv4 Address Allocation and 
Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region” (currently 
ripe-234).

We have also published a draft document detailing proposed changes to 
the “status:" attribute in inetnum objects.

Both documents can be downloaded from the "Drafts" section in the RIPE 
Document Store, found at:

    <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/>

The major updates to the draft IPv4 policy document include the 
following:

- Recent policy changes have been incorporated, including the
   policy allowing assignments for Internet experiments and the
   sub-allocation policy.
- Wording has been improved to make it easier to read.
- The explanation of how to use the database has been removed
   as a separate "RIPE Database User Manual: Getting Started"
   was published in September last year.
- The document now incorporates the text from "Provider Independent
   vs Provider Aggregatable Address Space" (ripe-127).
- The document now specifies database registration requirements.

If the community accepts this document it will replace the existing IPv4 
Policy document (ripe-234) and the "Provider Independent vs Provider 
Aggregatable Address Space" document (ripe-127).

The draft document on “status:" attributes proposes changes to the 
values of “status:" attributes. There is a new “status:" attribute 
value to support the sub-allocation policy, approved by the RIPE LIR 
Working Group. New wording is suggested, too. This should make the 
meaning of “status:" attributes more clear to the majority of Whois 
users.

Feedback on both documents should be sent to the
<address-policy-wg at ripe.net> mailing list for a period of five weeks. 
This review period will end on 28 August 2003.

Kind regards,

-- 
leo vegoda
RIPE NCC
Registration Services Manager