[news] RIPE Policy Proposals - January Update

Dear colleagues,

This mail provides a simple overview of open policy proposals and the 
stage they have reached in the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP).

We will send one of these summary emails every month. By doing so, we 
hope to make the PDP more accessible to the community and help people 
keep track of what is being discussed. If you wish to join the 
discussions about a proposal, please do so on the relevant working group 
mailing list.

If you have feedback on how we can improve these emails, please respond 
to me directly.


Proposals Open for Discussion:
2014-03, “Remove Multihoming Requirement for AS Number Assignments” – 
Discussion open until 22 January 2015
2014-05, “Policy for Inter-RIR Transfers of Internet Resources” - 
Discussion open until 9 February 2015
2014-12, “Allow IPv6 Transfers” - Discussion open until 21 January 2015
2014-13, “Allow AS Number Transfers” - Discussion open until 21 January 2015

Proposals at Last Call:
2014-04, “Removing IPv6 Requirement for Receiving Space from the Final 
/8” – Opinion can be stated until 12 February 2015
2014-06, “Publication of Sponsoring LIR for Legacy Internet Resource 
Holders” – Opinion can be stated until 13 February 2015

Proposal Overviews:

PROPOSAL: 2014-03, “Remove Multihoming Requirement for AS Number 
Assignments”
OVERVIEW: This proposal aims to ease the requirements when requesting an 
Autonomous System (AS) Number. It is proposed to remove the need 
evaluation, limit the amount of AS Numbers per organization to 1,000 and 
require that 16-bit AS Numbers are multihomed after nine months.
RIPE NCC IMPACT ANALYSIS: Includes point that it will be the End User 
that decides if the need for the AS Number is technically reasonable.
STATUS: Review Phase
WHERE TO COMMENT: The Address Policy Working Group – 
address-policy-wg at ripe.net
DEADLINE: 22 January 2015
FULL PROPOSAL: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2014-03

PROPOSAL: 2014-05, “Policy for Inter-RIR Transfers of Internet Resources”
OVERVIEW: This proposal aims to allow the global transfer of Internet 
resources. For transfers to the RIPE NCC service region from RIRs that 
require needs-based policies, recipients must provide the RIPE NCC with 
a plan for the use of at least 50% of the transferred resources within 
five years.
RIPE NCC IMPACT ANALYSIS: Includes point that the RIRs ARIN (North 
America) and APNIC (Asia-Pacific) confirmed that the proposed text is 
compatible with their transfer policies. Currently, the proposed 
inter-RIR transfer policy would apply to IPv4 PA allocations, IPv4 PI 
assignments and legacy resources.
STATUS: Review Phase
WHERE TO COMMENT: The Address Policy Working Group – 
address-policy-wg at ripe.net
DEADLINE: 9 February
FULL PROPOSAL: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2014-05

PROPOSAL: 2014-12, “Allow IPv6 Transfers”
OVERVIEW: The goal of this new proposal is to allow the transfer of IPv6 
address space within the RIPE NCC service region.
RIPE NCC IMPACT ANALYSIS: Includes point that the proposal would allow 
the transfer of IPv6 allocations and IPv6 Provider Independent (PI) 
assignments (or parts of them) from the rightfully registered resource 
holder to a new resource holder.
STATUS:Review Phase
WHERE TO COMMENT: The Address Policy Working Group – 
address-policy-wg at ripe.net
DEADLINE: 21 January
FULL PROPOSAL: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2014-12

PROPOSAL: 2014-13, “Allow AS Number Transfers”
OVERVIEW: The goal of this new proposal is to allow the transfer of AS 
Numbers within the RIPE NCC service region.
RIPE NCC IMPACT ANALYSIS: Includes point that the proposal would allow 
the transfer of AS Numbers from the rightfully registered resource 
holder to a new resource holder.
STATUS: Review Phase
WHERE TO COMMENT: The Address Policy Working Group – 
address-policy-wg at ripe.net
DEADLINE: 21 January
FULL PROPOSAL: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2014-13

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The following proposals are in Last Call. Rough consensus was declared 
and the purpose of this phase is to give the community a final 
opportunity to present well-justified objections in case anyone wants to 
oppose the proposal.

PROPOSAL:  2014-04, “Removing IPv6 Requirement for Receiving Space from 
the Final /8”
OVERVIEW: Currently, in order to receive a final /22 IPv4 allocation 
from the RIPE NCC, Local Internet Registries (LIRs) must have an IPv6 
allocation in the RIPE NCC service region. This proposal aims to remove 
this requirement.
STATUS: Last Call
WHERE TO COMMENT: The Address Policy Working Group – 
address-policy-wg at ripe.net
DEADLINE: 12 February
FULL PROPOSAL: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2014-04

PROPOSAL: 2014-06, “Publication of Sponsoring LIR for Legacy Internet 
Resource Holders”
OVERVIEW: This proposal aims to publish the link between legacy Internet 
resource holders and their sponsoring Local Internet Registry (LIR).
STATUS: Last Call
WHERE TO COMMENT: The RIPE NCC Services Working Group – 
ncc-services-wg at ripe.net
DEADLINE: 13 February
FULL PROPOSAL: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2014-06

The RIPE NCC provides an overview of current RIPE Policy Proposals on 
ripe.net:
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/current-proposals/current-policy-proposals

Full information about how the PDP works is available in ripe-614, 
“Policy Development Process in RIPE”:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-614

We look forward to your involvement in the PDP.

Kind regards,

Marco Schmidt
RIPE Policy Development Officer
RIPE NCC