Hello Daniel,
In "draft-ietf-dnsop-inaddr-required-05.txt" you write:
RIPE appears to have the strongest policy in this area [ripe-185] indicating Local Internet Registries are required to perform IN-ADDR services, and delegate those as appropriate when address blocks are delegated.
RIPE-185 has been obsoleted
The correct reference is to RIPE NCCs reverse delegation policy is
RIPE-302: Policy for Reverse Address Delegation of IPv4 and IPv6 Address Space in the RIPE NCC Service Region, (http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/rev-del.html)
There are no "requirements" for Local Internet Registries in this, or any other of our policy documents.
To the suggestion that
Regional Registries and any Local Registries to whom they delegate SHOULD establish and convey a policy to those to whom they delegate blocks that IN-ADDR mappings are required. Policies SHOULD require those receiving delegations to provide IN-ADDR service and/or delegate to downstream customers..
Formally Regional Registries do not set policy, it is the community that does so in a bottom up process. Besides these kind of policies are hard to enforce. This is one of the reason that RIPE 302 essentially reads that the RIPE NCC provide the reverse delegation service to the relevant LIRs, nothing more and nothing less.
While I personally disagree that the regional registries do not set policy (being a consumer of one and having had to follow a set of policies to obtain portable space), I have nontheless adjusted the text to indicate they should provide delegation services and encourage downstream registries to do the same.
In other words this is one of the places where the normative language is orthogonal to reality. When the normative language is dropped the document is much more useful as it can be used as a reference when "we" are trying to convince folk that enabling reverse delegation is actually a good idea.
I have difficulties with coming up with a good suggestion for text that would capture that.
Review the latest and let me know what else needs to be adjusted.
-- Olaf Kolkman New Projects, RIPE NCC
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