[address-policy-wg] 2013-03 New Policy Proposal (No Need - Post-Depletion Reality Adjustment and Cleanup)

* Richard Hartmann

> I still hope that IPv4 PI will come back, but that's for another day.

Yep, that's 2012-04. While 2013-03 will remove lots of *currently*
obsolete text regarding PI, there's no reason why 2012-04 can't add the
now-relevant-again bits back in.

>> «Clear contractual arrangements are mandatory for PA space.»
> 
> How about simply extending it to cover everything:
> 
>   Clear contractual arrangements between LIRs and end users are
> mandatory for all RIPE resources (IP space and AS numbers).

No. This policy document changed by 2013-03 covers IPv4 address space
only, so ASNs, IPv6, etc. is out of scope.

Also, I don't want to have the proposal "accidentally" change the
effective policy wrt. what kind of contractual arrangements are
mandatory at what time, and since there's many types of legacy
delegation types in existence there's a non-zero chance that removing
the explicit reference to PA space in the above sentence will cause
"jurisdiction creep", which in turn may be controversial in its own
right, and require me to spin another version, and so on. I'd rather
avoid taking that chance at this point. In a nutshell: 2013-03 amputates
the dead policy limbs. Cosmetic surgery can follow later. :-)

Tore