RIPE Policy UpdateMENOG 11: Amman, Jordan7 – 9 October 2012Gerardo Viviers – RIPE NCC

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Overview

• Brief overview of proposals in the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP)

• Policy Development Office (PDO) Activities

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Overview on Proposal Status (1/5)

• 2011-04: Extension of the Minimum Size for IPv6 Initial Allocation; consensus

• 2011-05: Safeguarding future IXPs with IPv4 space; consensus

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Overview on Proposal Status (2/5)

• 2011-06: Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE NCC Database

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Overview on Proposal Status (3/5)

• 2012-02: Policy for Inter-RIR Transfers of IPv4 Address Space

• 2012-03: Intra-RIR transfer policy proposal

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Overview on Proposal Status (4/5)

• 2012-04: PI Assignments from the last /8• 2012-05: Transparency in Address Block

Transfers

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Overview on Proposal Status (5/5)

• 2012-06: Revert “Run Out Fairly” after IPv4 depletion

• 2012-07: RIPE NCC Services to Legacy Resource Holders

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PDO Activities

• Cosmetic Surgery Project– Kicked off at RIPE 59

– Draft in-house

– APWG Co-Chairs’ confirmation

– Timeline: 15 working weeks per document

– Six policy documents for review

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PDO Activities

• Cosmetic Surgery Project Status– Draft under review: ripe-302 “Policy for Reverse Address Delegation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space in the RIPE NCC Service Region”

– https://www.ripe.net/ripe/readability/improving-the-readability-of-ripe-documents

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RIPE PDO: References

• Policy Development Process (PDP) document– http://ripe.net/ripe/docs/pdp.html

• Current Policy Proposals– http://ripe.net/pdp/proposals

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RIPE Policy Development Officer

• Emilio Madaio• Contacts

– pdo@ripe.net

– address-policy-wg@ripe.net

Questions?emadaio@ripe.net