Dear Colleagues, As requested by the working group, please find below a summary of the variations in the Initial Allocation Criteria for IPv6 Policy from each of the other regions. For all regions, the following criteria apply: a) Requester must be an LIR b) Requester must not be an end site The other criteria vary. They are summarised below by region: ARIN region: Requesters must: c) plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organisations to which it will assign /48s, by advertising that connectivity through its single aggregated address allocation; d) have a plan for making at least 200 /48 assignments to other organisations within two years. There is a policy proposal in last call review currently which states: - to change the timeframe above in 'd)' from "two years" to "five years" and - to have 'd)' prepended "be an existing, known ISP in the ARIN region or..." (http://www.arin.net/policy/2003_4.html) APNIC region: Requesters must: c) plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organisations to which it will assign /48s, by advertising that connectivity through its single aggregated address allocation; d) have a plan for making at least 200 /48 assignments to other organisations within two years. In addition, APNIC will make allocations to closed networks if they meet all other criteria. LACNIC region: Requesters must: c) document a detailed plan for the services and IPv6 connectivity to be offered to other organisations (clients); d) announce a single block in the Internet inter-domain routing system, aggregating the total IPv6 address allocation received, within a period not longer than 12 months; e) offer IPv6 services to clients physically located within the region covered by LACNIC within a period not longer than 24 months. Regarding your comments on the RIR Comparative Policy Overview document, http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/registration/rir-comp-matrix-rev.ht... I realise that it is currently out of date. This document is currently being reviewed. I expect the document to be published in July. It will include the above points along with any other policy related matters. Kind regards, -- Filiz Yilmaz RIPE NCC