Dear colleagues, Policy proposal 2019-03, "Resource Hijacking is a RIPE Policy Violation" is now in the Review Phase. The goal of this proposal is to define that BGP hijacking is not accepted as normal practice within the RIPE NCC service region. The proposal has been updated following the last round of discussion and is now at version v2.0. Some of the changes made to version v1.0 include: - Includes procedural steps for reporting and evaluation of potential hijacks - Provides guidelines for external experts - Adjusted title The RIPE NCC has prepared an impact analysis on this latest proposal version to support the community’s discussion. You can find the full proposal and impact analysis at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2019-03 https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2019-03#impact-analysis And the draft documents at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2019-03/draft As per the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP), the purpose of this four week Review Phase is to continue discussion of the proposal, taking the impact analysis into consideration, and to review the full draft RIPE Policy Document. At the end of the Review Phase, the Working Group (WG) Chairs will determine whether the WG has reached rough consensus. It is therefore important to provide your opinion, even if it is simply a restatement of your input from the previous phase. We encourage you to read the proposal, impact analysis and draft document and send any comments to <anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net> before 4 October 2019. Kind regards, Marco Schmidt Policy Officer RIPE NCC