Pekka, On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:45:11PM +0300, ext Pekka Savola wrote:
I just recently noted that experimental IPv6 address allocations have been "sneaked in" the policy, as seen in:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6policy.html#experiment-assignments
I must heavily object to this for a few reasons:
1) the intent is to keep the policy uniform, and this has not been discussed in the global-v6 policy mailing list.
2) RIPE43 minutes (posted on Oct 19 2002) list that this should be turned into a draft proposal [note: the URL for the presentation does not work]; There was a draft proposal on 28 Nov 2002 on "DRAFT: Experimental Internet Resource Allocations & Assignments". This is no longer available so I cannot verify the contents.
3) On 22 Jan 2003, new RIPE documents, 263 and 267 are available; these incorporate an experimental addressing policy.
To my knowledge and according to my mail archives, neither of these has *ever* been as much as mentioned in the mailing lists (either ipv6 or lir wg) - not a single message.
I agree with your assessment. I don't agree with the procedure that was followed to get the wording on experimental addresses in the policy.
Is this sufficient in determining this is really what community wants?
No. David K. PS please post follow up messages to the lir-wg only, the lir-wg deals with policy issues. ---