Hay, [I didn't remove ncc-services-wg and db-wg lists since it's also a policy and db-issue] Olaf Kolkman wrote: [...]
The reverse delegation policy has been revised, relaxing the terms under which reverse delegation will be serviced and providing the framework to implement the authorisation mechanism described above.
The draft "Policy for Reverse Address Delegation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space in the RIPE NCC Service Region" can be found at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/reverse-draft-200401.html
We would like to invite your comments on this. Please discuss these proposals on the DNS Working Group mailing list. [...]
AFAIR there was no objection to this proposal as long as it comes to relaxing the policy itself. I think we could implement the new draft ASAP. It's short and easy and was updated to IPv6 - all we need. The best part in my eyes is, that with the new policy and the new authorisation system (mnt-domains ect.), every address space holder can again request/update their rDNS delegations on their own (given the correct db authorisation) - as long as they know what they do. (At least I think that's intentionally, since all the parts relating to only LIRs can hand in requests have been removed :-) ) And a personal sidenote: I always kinda liked the current policy, allowing reverse delegation on a /24 block only if there's at least one valid assignment in it. Even though one usually shouldn't route a net without a valid assignment, i merged several LIRs throughout the last years, and I _always_ discovered some routed but not assigned networks. In almost all cases it was hard to get the customer to hand in a correct request for nets he's already been using for a while. The best was to tell the customer, they can't get rDNS until they have a valid Assignment and point to the policy - that often helped, unless they didn't care about rDNS at all. Though, this is rather a social problem of unwilling customers and lazy LIRs. So I do support the relaxed policy. Just saying that in my case the current policy rather helped some times than causing problems due to the restrictions. But i see the advantages of the new draft in general. -- ======================================================================== = Sascha Lenz SLZ-RIPE slz@baycix.de = = Network Operations = = BayCIX GmbH, Landshut * PGP public Key on demand * = ========================================================================