March 2024 - address-policy-wg

Last Call - 2023-04 (Add AGGREGATED-BY-LIR status
by Leo Vegoda 01 May '24

01 May '24

Dear Address Policy WG, There was a consensus on this proposal and we are moving it forward to Last Call. The RIPE NCC will publish an announcement with dates. There was a request, in Rome, for clarity over whether aggregated assignments needed to have a fixed size or could vary. The proposers suggested that a fixed size should be optional. We extended the list discussion by a month and the two issues raised have been addressed. One was End User sites not having the End User's own admin-c instead of the LIR's. There has been extensive discussion of this. One key reason given is that it is common and acceptable to outsource a part of an organisation's operations to another, more skilled, operator. The RIPE NCC's impact analysis noted that the proposal "simply leaves the status quo unchanged." It would not need to update its operational processes. Concerns were also raised that aggregating assignments would impact criminal investigations. But this proposal is intended to improve the quality of data registered by offering LIRs a less arduous way to share registration data. At the end of 2023 there were over 19,000 PA allocations without any assignments. Those LIRs that want to share data are already doing so. Those who would like to share some data if it were easier to do so will be accommodated if this proposal becomes policy. Kind regards, Leo Vegoda, for the Address Policy WG co-chairs

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Address Policy WG co-chair selection
by Leo Vegoda 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

Dear Address Policy WG, We need to select two co-chairs for the Address Policy WG at RIPE 88 in May. You can find a job description here: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/wgchair-job-description The RIPE NCC has produced a RIPE Working Group Chair e-learning course. You can find it at: https://academy.ripe.net/enrol/index.php?id=16 Erik Bais's term ends at RIPE 88. He has volunteered to serve again. Alex le Heux volunteered and was introduced at RIPE 87 in Rome. He would like to be confirmed as co-chair. Other volunteers are welcome to put their names forward. You can either write directly to this list or to me. I will publish the full list of candidates on Friday, 19 April. The process for deciding on co-chairs is published on our website: https://www.ripe.net/community/wg/active-wg/ap/address-policy-wg-chair-sele… As two co-chairs need to be selected at the same time, one will take a three year term and the other a two year term. Kind regards, Leo Vegoda, for the Address Policy WG co-chairs

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Interpretation of IPv6 PI Policy
by Tobias Fiebig 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, I am currently handling an end-user request for, initially, a /47 PI (now, due to the NCC stating that a /47 is, generally, not possible, even if routing reasons exist, a /48). During that discussion the NCC shared further details concerning the interpretation of RIPE-738, which I believe may be useful information to share, also in the context of possible ways to improve the address policy for the NCC region. Specifically: - The NCC reads "The minimum size of the assignment is a /48." as the minimum pertaining to the minimal value of the prefix size and not 'the minimum total size of an assignment in the number of IP addresses.' However, it deems it possible that multiple separate /48 can be assigned. => This means that a revision of the IPv6 policy will have to also clarify this point, i.e., by rephrasing it to 'the longest prefix size for an assignment is a /48' - The NCC reads "Assignments larger than a /48 (shorter prefix) or additional assignments exceeding a total of a /48 must be based on address usage or because different routing requirements exist for additional assignments." to mean that larger assignments can only be made based on address usage. Routing requirements can only justify multiple /48. => If this should be clarified, removing the text saying 'for additional assignments.' should suffice. - The NCC reads the reference to Section 5.4.2 in 'The considerations of "5.4.2. Assignments shorter than a /48 to a single End-Site" must be followed if needed.' to imply authoritative language codifying the assignment to a single end-site, and not a reference to a different section requiring the analogous application of the concepts in this section to a PI assignment. => A way to clarify that might be to only reference sections by, e.g., "Section 5.4.2", to ensure that the referenced title of a section is not understood as authoritative language. With best regards, Tobias -- Dr.-Ing. Tobias Fiebig T +31 616 80 98 99 M tobias(a)fiebig.nl

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2023-04 Last Call for Comments (Add AGGREGATED-BY-LIR status for IPv4 PA assignments)
by Karen Hung 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, Proposal 2023-04, "Add AGGREGATED-BY-LIR status for IPv4 PA assignments " is now in Concluding Phase. The goal of this proposal was to introduce the AGGREGATED-BY-LIR status for IPv4 PA assignments to reduce LIR efforts in registration and maintenance. The WG co-chairs have declared that rough consensus has been reached and the proposal will now move to Last Call. As per the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP), the purpose of this four-week Concluding Phase is to give an opportunity to present well-justified objections for those who missed the previous two phases and wish to oppose the proposal. Any objection must be made before 9 April 2024 and must be supported by an explanation. If no substantive objections are raised by the end of Last Call, the proposal will complete the PDP and will be evaluated by the WG co-chairs for final consensus. You can find the full proposal at: https://www.ripe.net/membership/policies/proposals/2023-04/ Please e-mail any final comments about this proposal to address-policy-wg(a)ripe.net <mailto:address-policy-wg@ripe.net> before 9 April 2024. Kind regards, Karen Hung On behalf of Policy Officer RIPE NCC

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