[address-policy-wg] 2011-05 New Policy Proposal (Safeguarding future IXPs with IPv4 space)

Hi,

Am 25.10.2011 um 11:51 schrieb Emilio Madaio:

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> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> A proposed change to RIPE Document ripe-530, "IPv4 Address Allocation
> and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region", is now
> available for discussion.
> 
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> You can find the full proposal at:
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>    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2011-05
> 
> We encourage you to review this proposal and send your comments to
> <address-policy-wg at ripe.net> before 22 November 2011.

i'm not a fan of "special entities", but IXPs actually are a bit special
and the proposal again makes some examples why, so i do support this proposal.
Reserving an(other) /16 for this purpose doesn't really hurt anyone either.

I am not quite sure if 180days for returning the old prefix is really enough in 
a world where it's hard to reach some peering partners and get
reactions in under 360days :-) but i'm not an IXP operator so what do i know...
I just assume it's reasonable?

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards

Sascha Lenz [SLZ-RIPE]
Senior System- & Network Architect