Hi, On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 02:43:18PM -0400, McTim wrote:
I'm not sure whether RFC2050 or this personal draft is very relevant for decisions we do in RIPE community (and I've said so before). I consider the IETF to be not responsible at all anymore for the way the IANA and the RIRs handle IP address and ASN management - they have delegated the space to IANA, and accepted the existance of a bottom-up policy process for the local policies in the respective regions. RFC2050 *itself* acknowledges this in in the IESG note - it describes the *then* best current practice (in 1996). To quote from the Abstract: " This document describes the IP assignment policies currently used by the Regional Registries to implement the guidelines developed by the IANA. The guidelines and these policies are subject to revision at the direction of the IANA. The registry working group (IRE WG) will be discussing these issues and may provide advice to the IANA about possible revisions." it's not saying "the regional registries have to follow RFC2050", but vice versa, RFC2050 describes what the RIRs have been doing at that time, and explains it to the IETF community - which is good and useful, but should not be turned around. Thus, I consider any argument against this proposal solely based on RFC2050 or draft-2050-bis to be about as weak as "we have never done it this way, so we can't start now!" - times have changed, and our IPv4 policy is full of hard-to-explain historic stuff, primarily targeted at a situation that does no longer exist (LIRs justifying the size of their next allocation to the RIPE NCC). Therefore, I'd ask you to give it proper consideration, taking into account the fact that we're out of IPv4 addresses, and that this is not going to change any time soon. (This topic actually has come up at the previous two RIPE meetings when Rob Blokzijl presented his draft of an "IPv4 maintenance policy" - which didn't make it into a formal policy proposal yet, but Tore's proposal effectively does the same thing - leave in the policy document what is still relevant, throw out the rest) Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279