Hi, Appearance of new "IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy" is a really great news! Text looks more literary, abolished terms (like NIR) has been removed. Especially important changes is present in paragraph 4.1 were described "right to deregister" instead nonexistent "licensing" term. I'm personally happy to see "The IXP must have a transparent and published policy describing the requirements to join" instead "there must be a clear and open policy". So idea of my 2010-07 proposal has been successfully incorporated. Good job! Thank you.

Dear colleagues,

At RIPE 59 in Lisbon in October 2009, the RIPE NCC announced that it would undertake a project to make various RIPE Policy Documents easier to understand without changing the meaning of the text.

We have just finished merging the following three policies into one document:

-ripe-512 "IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy" -ripe-451 "IPv6 Address Space Policy for Internet Exchange Points" -ripe-233 "IPv6 Addresses for Internet Root Servers in the RIPE Region"

A draft of the new merged document is online and ready for community review at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/updated-documents/

We encourage you to read this merged version and send any comments to address-policy-wg@ripe.net <mailto:address-policy-wg@ripe.net> by 18 May 2011.

Kind Regards, Emilio Madaio Policy Development Officer RIPE NCC

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