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

On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Emilio Madaio wrote:
>
> 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.
>


I do wonder how many special cases we will see crop up before we've let v4 
exit stage left, however the benefits brought by the reservation of a /16 
for increased network interconnection I think justify the addition to the 
policy. There is a question of whether the IXP should just become an LIR 
to receive an allocation that way, however I neither believe that an IXP 
should be forced into becoming an LIR or that all IXPs necessarily have an 
appropriate entity with which to do so, especially when they are in the 
startup phase.

Therefore I support this policy.

-- 
Tom Hodgson
tom at someaddress.net