Presentation given by Marco Schmidt online at the Middle East and Adjoining Countries School on Internet Governance on 6 July 2021

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RIPE Policy
Development Process

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The Internet Registry System

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Regional Internet Registries (RIR)
•Five RIRs worldwid
e
-Main goal: high-quality registratio
n
-Not-for-pro
fi
t organisation
s
-Funded by membership fee
s
-Policies decided by regional communitie
s
-Neutral, Impartial, Open, Transparent

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RIPE Policy Development Process
• RIPE policies are set of rules accepted by the RIPE communit
y
• The Policy Development Process (RIPE PDP), creates the
policies related to Internet operations for the RIPE community
.
• The PDP is documented in ripe-710 (https://www.ripe.net/
publications/docs/ripe-710)

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POLICIES
RIPE Community
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RIPE PDP Bottom-up Model
Mailing Lists / RIPE Meetings
WGs
LIRs
RIPE NCC
Rules
PDP
General Meetings

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Working Groups
• Address Polic
y
• Routin
g
• Databas
e
• Anti-abus
e
• Cooperatio
n
• DN
S
• IPv
6
• RIPE NCC Service
s
• Connec
t
• Open Sourc
e
• Measurement, Analysis and Tool
s
• IoT

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PDP phases
• Conclusions are reached by consensus determined by the WG
Chairs
Creating a
Proposal
Discussion
Phas
e
min 4 weeks
Review Phas
e
max 4 weeks
Concluding
Phas
e
4 weeks
Withdrawn Accepted

8. Name| Event| Date
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Policy Development Process
• Ope
n
• Transparen
t
• Bottom-up

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Who is most interested in PDP and why?
Different network operators are taking part in the PD
P
• ISPs, WebHosting providers, VPN providers, Content provider
s
• Commercial entitie
s
• Universities, Researchers
• Government
s
• Law Enforcement Agencie
s
• Individual internet user
s
• Brokers

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RIPE Policies might change
• The size of allocations made by the RIPE NCC to its member
s
• The size of assignments made by LIRs to end user
s
• The number of peers needed to qualify for a public A
S
• The information to be published in the RIPE Databas
e
• The transferability of internet number resources to different
entitie
s
• ….

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RIPE NCC in the PDP
• Secretariat to support the proces
s
• Helps with documentatio
n
• Implements the policies
Angela Dall’Ar
a
Policy Of
fi
ce
r
pdo@ripe.net

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PDP Challenges
• Wide participation in the open discussio
n
• Representation of different parties with different need
s
• Cultural barrier
s
• Respect of the Code of Conduc
t
• Legal constraint
s

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PDP Con
fl
icts
• The RIPE NCC Policy Of
fi
ce can help spotting a proposal
con
fl
ict, i.e. with the governance scope of different bodies (RIPE
NCC, RIPE NCC EB,…
)
• The appeal procedure is in place to resolve con
fl
icts with the
decision taken by the WG chair
s

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Recent RIPE policy changes
• Introducing new regulations for the distribution of scarce IPv4
resource (reducing maximum size to 256 IPs, for new members
only via waiting list system)
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2019-02
• Change the business rules for the RIPE Internet Routing
Registry (IRR) service to allow for a better hierarchy.
Objects in con
fl
ict with Route Origin Authorisations (ROAs) will
be deleted from the Non-Authoritative RIPE IRR Database
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2018-06

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What are we expecting to see happen with PDP
over the next 12 months?
• New privacy rules for the RIPE Database
?
• Tuning in the IPv6 addresses allocation and assignment policies
?
• New services for routing registry/security
?
• …

16. ?
Questions
mschmidt@ripe.net
@mschmidt_policy