As a general comment, my inclination would either be to do a complete top-down rewrite of specific documents, or else approach rewrites with changes only to small areas. Otherwise you end up with the risk of minor changes derailing other, and potentially more important, changes.
I tend to favour the latter. A complete top-down rewrite of RIPE policy documents sounds tempting but I'm not sure how feasible that would be in practice. Either way, even minor changes must have their impact on existing policies properly identified and taken into account. On mitigating the risk of derailing other ongoing changes, I trust the WG chairs to coordinate that with the proposers :) Best, James From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> To: "Marco Schmidt"<mschmidt@ripe.net> Cc: "address-policy-wg@ripe.net"<address-policy-wg@ripe.net> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:05:53 +0100 Subject: [address-policy-wg] Re: Feedback for potential policy proposal on IPv6
Marco Schmidt wrote on 08/09/2026 06:07:
The main points I raised were the lack of a general reference to the audit procedure in the IPv6 policy, and the wording of the section dealing with policy compliance and non-compliance, which has remained unchanged since 2002 and might be difficult to understand without the historical context.
for sure, the existing section of policy that you quoted is not well written and doesn't look like it reflects how ipv6 address resources are handled. It would benefit from a rewrite.
In terms of other RIPE policy document changes, there's no shortage of material that could be improved: many of the documents are the product of organic growth, and show all the signs of it. As a general comment, my inclination would either be to do a complete top-down rewrite of specific documents, or else approach rewrites with changes only to small areas. Otherwise you end up with the risk of minor changes derailing other, and potentially more important, changes.
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