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RIPE Policies

These documents describe the policies currently implemented by the RIPE NCC. They result from an open, transparent, community-led development process. Global policies have been accepted in all RIRs.

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    IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region

    ripe-826: This document describes registry policies for allocating and assigning globally unique IPv4 Internet address space in the RIPE NCC service region.

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    RIPE Resource Transfer Policies

    ripe-807: This document defines registry policies for Internet number resource transfers to, from and within the RIPE NCC service region.

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    Voluntary Transfer Lock

    ripe-806: This is a guiding policy for the RIPE NCC to offer a Voluntary Transfer Lock to resource holders.

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    Temporary Internet Number Assignment Policies

    ripe-801: This document defines registry policies for temporary direct assignments of IPv4/IPv6 address space and Autonomous System (AS) Numbers in the RIPE NCC service region.

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    IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy

    ripe-738: This document defines registry policies for allocating and assigning globally unique IPv6 addresses to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and other organisations.

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    RIPE NCC IRR Database Non-Authoritative Route Object Clean-up

    ripe-731: This document describes the RIPE NCC's process for deleting an object stored in the non-authoritative RIPE IRR (known as “RIPE-NONAUTH”) when it conflicts with an RPKI ROA issued by one of the five RIRs.

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    Abuse Contact Management in the RIPE Database

    ripe-705: This policy defines the introduction and validation of the contact attribute "abuse-c:” which can be included in RIPE Database inetnum, inet6num and aut-num objects.

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    Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policies

    ripe-679: This document defines registry policies for assigning globally unique Autonomous System (AS) Numbers within the RIPE NCC service region.

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    RIPE NCC Services to Legacy Internet Resource Holders

    ripe-639: This document defines the principles of offering and implementing registry services for legacy Internet resource holders.

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    Contractual Requirements for Provider Independent Resource Holders in the RIPE NCC Service Region

    ripe-637: This document defines the contractual requirements necessary for End Users of provider independent resources.

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