Dear Working Group, On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 03:02:43PM +0200, Marco Schmidt wrote:
The Discussion Period for the proposal 2015-05, "Last /8 Allocation Criteria Revision" has been extended until 13 June 2016.
this has been decided by proposers and WG chairs based on your discussion and the upcoming AP meeting at RIPE72 (next wednesday) - keep the proposal active until after the discussion there (see below), then decide how to proceed. From the discussion it was very clear that there is no consensus today to go ahead - without going into detail, it's clear that there are two strong factions, one that wants to preserve the remaining /22s for "as long as possible", while the other one wants to ease the pain for those LIRs that have too little IPv4 today, willing to incur earlier total run-out as a consequence. Given 2016-03 as a proposal that tries to restrict /22 distribution even more, we now need to basically agree as a working group which is the path we want to follow - leave things as they are (with minor tweaks) - be more restrictive (2016-03) - be more liberal in handing out addresses (2015-05) so the chairs have decided that this needs a somewhat wider discussion than focussing on just the individual proposals - and based on that, the proposers can then either witdraw, or tweak their proposals to match the general direction. We want this discussion to take place next Wednesday, 09:30, in Copenhagen (plus remote participation, of course) - mainly because it is much easier to get a feeling for the "general direction" when doing a face to face discussion than by e-mail. Of course, the consequence of that discussion will be "specific proposals on the list" (or not, we'll see) - so as usual, the consensus building will still happen here on the list. See ya next week, 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 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279