Archived Policy Proposals
The policy proposals on this page have been archived. You can see at a glance if they were accepted and adopted by the RIPE community or withdrawn at any stage.
- State:
- Accepted
- Archived Date:
- September 2018
Summary: This proposal clarified the options available to the Working Group chairs at the end of the Review Phase of the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP).
- State:
- Accepted
- Archived Date:
- August 2018
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: This proposal fixed outdated information in the RIPE Policy "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region".
- State:
- Accepted
- Archived Date:
- July 2018
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: This proposal aimed to clarify the wording used in RIPE-699 regarding terms such as “organisation” and “LIR”.
- State:
- Accepted
- Archived Date:
- June 2018
- Working Group:
- Anti-Abuse Working Group
Summary: This proposal gives the RIPE NCC a mandate to regularly validate "abuse-mailbox:" information and to follow up in cases where the attribute is deemed to be incorrect.
- State:
- Accepted
- Archived Date:
- March 2018
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: The goal of this proposal was to re-define the term "sub-assignment" for IPv6.
- State:
- Withdrawn
- Archived Date:
- October 2017
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: This proposal aimed to reduce the IPv4 allocations made by the RIPE NCC to a /24 (currently a /22) and only to LIRs that have not received an IPv4 allocation directly from the RIPE NCC before.
Reason for Withdrawal: The proposers felt unable to create a second draft that addressed conflicting objections.
- State:
- Withdrawn
- Archived Date:
- September 2017
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
This proposal aimed to to add the requirement that the RIPE NCC publish all changes to the holdership of legacy resources in the existing transfer statistics.
Reason for Withdrawal: The proposer didn't see enough community support, especially from Legacy Resource Holders as the parties that would be most affected.
- Archived Date:
- March 2017
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: This policy change matches the subsequent IPv6 allocation requirements with the initial allocation requirements.
- State:
- Accepted
- Archived Date:
- March 2017
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: This proposal creates a single policy document for Internet number resource transfers, replacing text in several RIPE Policies. It also introduces a 24-month holding period for IPv4 addresses and 16-bit ASNs after any change of holdership.
- State:
- Withdrawn
- Archived Date:
- November 2016
- Working Group:
- Address Policy Working Group
Summary: This proposal aimed to ban transfers of allocations made under the final /8 policy.
Reason for Withdrawal: The proposer decided to abandon the proposal as he felt that the ongoing discussion was damaging the RIPE community’s reputation. As nobody stepped forward to take over the authorship of this proposal, the proposal was withdrawn.