[address-policy-wg] Revised Draft Document for review: "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region"

Dear Colleagues,

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce an updated draft of the revised RIPE
IPv4 policy document, "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for
the RIPE NCC Service Region" (currently ripe-234).

The major change from the draft published on 21st July is that the existing
"status:" attribute values are kept for inetnum objects with the addition of
a new value for sub-allocations.

The updated draft can be downloaded from the "Drafts" section in the RIPE
Document Store, found at:

<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/>

The major updates to the current policy text in this draft IPv4 policy
document are:

- Recent policy changes have been incorporated, including the policy
allowing assignments for Internet experiments and the sub-allocation policy.
- Wording has been improved to make it easier to read.
- The explanation of how to use the database has been removed as a separate
"RIPE Database User Manual: Getting Started" was published in September last
year.
- The document now incorporates the text from "Provider Independent vs
Provider Aggregatable Address Space" (ripe-127).

If the community accepts this document it will replace the existing IPv4
Policy document (ripe-234) and the "Provider Independent vs Provider
Aggregatable Address Space" document (ripe-127).

Feedback on this document should be sent to the address-policy-wg at localhost
mailing list for a period of two weeks.

This review period will end on TWO WEEKS FROM ANNOUNCEMENT.



Dominic Spratley
Registration Services Manager
RIPE NCC