On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:15:35 +0100, Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie> wrote:
It merely states that new and continued registration of certain types of provider independent address resources is contingent on entering into a direct or indirect contractual relationship with the RIPE NCC.
IMHO, it would be useful to include that statement in (or even instead of) the "Summary" at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-01.html. Moreover, the following text (flagged "ADDITION TO DOCUMENT >>" in http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/ripe-424-draft-2007-01-v3.html) needs a heading of its own as its context is clearly wider than what the heading "End Users requesting PI space should be given this or a similar warning" suggests. The policies stated above about the PI address space covers all non PA address space maintained in the RIPE database, except address space marked as Early Registration (ERX) and address space marked as NON-SET. The RIPE community has requested that the RIPE NCC to take necessary steps to make sure that this is realised. In cases where the RIPE NCC cannot locate the End User that is a PI address space assignee within 3 months, the address space will be returned to the RIPE NCC pool and and made available for re-assignment to other End Users. IIRC, this incongruity was already pointed (not by me) out at some stage during RIPE 56. I can't help feeling that the intention to apply the new policy retro-actively is being understated. This very much isn't something that should be finessed, but rather needs to be made abundantly clear. VBR, Niall O'Reilly