Hi APWG, at the last RIPE meeting in Amsterdam, I asked the RIPE NCC RS department to provide feedback to us regarding the day-to-day working with our policies. We make the policies, but we don't really know how well they work (especially for the great mass of LIRs that don't participate in the policy-making process) unless we get feedback. Alex Le Heux from the RIPE NCC volunteered, and reported the top three issues that cause the most questions and discussion between RS and the LIRs requesting resources. See here for the details: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-59/presentations/leheux-rough-edges-o... The three issues were: - differences between IPv4 and IPv6 policy - interpretation of the AS number policy - interpretation and wording of the 80% rule At the meeting, we discussed only one of these (the interpretation of the AS number policy, see page 10-16 in the PDF), because we ran out of time - and instead of rushing all three items, the WG chairs decided to focus on one, and bring up the other two on the list. Regarding the interpretation of the AS number policy, feedback from the audience in the room (plus comments in the hallways) was quite clear - everybody who voiced their opinion argued that a LIR that can document multiple distinct routing policies is entitled to multiple AS numbers, even if it's the same organization running all of the network(s). So the Registration Services department was asked to accept multiple AS requests for the same organization if an individual unique routing policy can be documented. For details of this discussion, please see the APWG R59 minutes: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/address-policy/r59-minutes.html Next steps: the WG chairs will bring up the other two items to the AWPG mailing list in the next days. We need to get feedback from the community on the intent and interpretation of the current policy, and if the result is that the current policy is not really what the community wants, get the necessary changes under way. regards, Gert Doering, APWG Chair -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 144438 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