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Archived Policy Proposals

The policy proposals on this page have been archived. You can see at a glance if they were accepted and adopted by the RIPE community or withdrawn at any stage.

Archived Date:
November 2019
Working Group:
Routing Working Group

Summary: This proposal created a process to delete a non-authoritative object stored in the RIPE IRR, if it conflicts with an RPKI ROA.

Archived Date:
October 2019
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group

Summary: This proposal aimed to increase the reserved IPv4 pool for IXPs to a /15 and finetune assignment criteria.

Archived Date:
October 2019
Working Group:
Anti-Abuse Working Group

Summary: This proposal aimed to define that BGP hijacking is not accepted as normal practice within the RIPE NCC service region.

Reason for Withdrawal: The proposers felt they were unable to address concerns that the policy would expose the RIPE NCC to unacceptable liability risks. These concerns were expressed by both the Executive Board and some community members.

Archived Date:
July 2019
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group

Summary: This proposal created a waiting list based on an allocation size of /24 once the RIPE NCC’s free IPv4 pool is exhausted.

Archived Date:
May 2019
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group

Summary: This proposal made it clear in the IPv4 Policy that the status "ASSIGNED PA" can also be used for assignments to an LIR's infrastructure.

Archived Date:
March 2019
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group

Summary: This proposal aimed to clarify the definition of "Assign" in ripe-707 (section 2.6).

Reason for Withdrawal: The proposer decided it was best to find agreement on a problem statement before developing new policy text.

Archived Date:
January 2019
Working Group:
RIPE NCC Services Working Group

Summary: This proposal aimed for the RIPE NCC to publish the validated legal address information of all holders of Internet number resources.

Reason for Withdrawal: The proposer decided it was not possible to find an acceptable agreement which satisfied all parties. There is still heavy resistance in the community that cannot be resolved at this stage.

2018-04: PDP Clarification
State:
Accepted
Archived Date:
September 2018

Summary: This proposal clarified the options available to the Working Group chairs at the end of the Review Phase of the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP).

Archived Date:
August 2018
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group

Summary: This proposal fixed outdated information in the RIPE Policy "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region".

Archived Date:
July 2018
Working Group:
Address Policy Working Group

Summary: This proposal aimed to clarify the wording used in RIPE-699 regarding terms such as “organisation” and “LIR”.