[lir-wg] New Draft in-addr.arpa Policy Document - Reminder

>   From owner-lir-wg at ripe.net Thu Jun 20 12:15:28 2002
>   From: Paul Rendek <ncc at ripe.net>

Dear all,

>   This is a reminder that the deadline for comments and suggestions for the 
>   draft in-addr policy document is set for Monday, 24 June 2002. The new 
>   draft "Reverse Address Delegation Under 'in-addr.arpa' in the RIPE NCC 
>   Service Region" document can be found on our website at:
>   
>   http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/registration/policies/draft-documents/
>   
>   All comments and suggestions should be sent to <lir-wg at ripe.net>.

I would have a short question and a suggestion for clarification.

1. Is the last paragraph of 3.0 not superfluous in the light of the last
   paragraph of 5.0?

 3.0: "LIRs should maintain DNS resource records for address space assigned 
       to End Users from their own address space, even if the user obtains
       connectivity from a different LIR."

 5.0: "LIRs should provide reverse delegation corresponding to an assignment 
       during the complete validity period of the assignment."

   I mean that my understanding is that for 3.0 there are two cases:
   the end-user either _changes_ its provider, in which case they will
   have to renumber, and during renumbering their assignment is valid,
   i.e. the old LIR has to provide reverse DNS according to 5.0 during
   renumbering, or the end-user becomes multi-homed, therefore they will
   keep the old address space for which they obviously will need reverse
   DNS (on the long run) that the old LIR is again supposed to provide,
   based on 5.0.

   Am I missing something?

2. I think the intent of first paragraph of 3.0 is to accept a reverse
   delegation of an address block as soon as there is ANY address space
   assigned from it (i.e not ALL has to be assigned prior to reverse
   delegation), assuming that the whole block has been allocated to that
   LIR (this is relevant only for /16s). Therfore I suggest something like:

  "The RIPE NCC accepts requests for reverse delegation solely for address 
   space that HAD BEEN ALLOCATED TO THE REQUESTING LIR AND AT LEAST ONE PORTION
   OF WHICH has been registered by the LIR as assigned to End Users in the RIPE
   Whois Database."

(You will probably find a better word than "portion" to describe this).

Best regards,
Janos