On 17/01/2012 14:25, Emilio Madaio wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

The text of the policy proposal 2011-05, "Safeguarding future IXPs with IPv4 space", has been revised based on the community feedback received on the mailing list. We have published the new version (version 2.0) today. As a result a new Discussion Phase is set for the proposal.

Changes in version 2.0 include:

- Specified that a /16 will be reserved from the final /8 - The addition of two bullet points on the assignment size and on the use of space returned in the new section 5.6.2.

Detail: section 5 should (probably) say "clause 1 or clause 2". More general: it is entirely possible that the final /8 (minus the /16 for IXPs) will be distributed before the /16 for IXPs has run out. What will happen to the IXP-/16 then? Considering that any new organization will only get IPv6, a new IXP in that region will only need v6 connectivity anyway, so why have a seperate block then? Henk

You can find the full proposal at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2011-05

We encourage you to review this policy proposal and send your comments to <address-policy-wg@ripe.net> before 14 February 2012.

Regards, Emilio Madaio Policy Development Officer RIPE NCC

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