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In my opinion this article is totally wrong.

I don't really believe the lack of IPv6 deployment it is really so directly connected to the availability of PI. Most of the content providers don't really need PI, because they can access to PA. I don't mean there are no cases that may be on that situation, but definitively not a show stopper for the majority.

It is also easy to see that in other regions where IPv6 PI is available (3 out of 5), the number of allocations for IPv6 PI is really ridiculous, even if it is really easy to obtain it.

In addition to that, there is a policy proposal to remove the 200 customers in RIPE NCC which I submitted around one year ago, and it is now in the last call. What it means basically is that big enterprises, which can be considered as an ISP towards their own organizations, will be able to get PA. No need for them for PI. This is for example the case for NATO, universities, etc. I hope that it will pass the last call (dead line July 2nd).

It is also not true that RIPE only submitted a proposal on PI on 22nd May. This proposal has been around for more than one year also, and I'm not able to progress too much, because there are not many inputs (in favor, against, or proposing changes) to move it forward.

Furthermore, is not up to RIPE to make a proposal, but the community, people like any of you, doing the same I did: Actually submitting the proposal. But this is not enough, we need inputs from the rest of the participants in order to make sure to get it thru the process.

In both cases, I mean for both policy proposals, what I will expect from the people interviewed by this journalist, or others interested in the deployment of IPv6, is being much more constructive and that means going to the policy-wg mailing list and either supporting (or not, or provide alternative inputs) the policy proposals. This is the way the community develop policies (PDP, Policy Development Process), it is not a function of the RIPE NCC to do so, but ourselves.

I hope that the article doesn't reflect what Jay and Tim said, as this is something that we often see when interviewed by journalists, but then I will call them for making sure that the journalist make a correction in the article, because it is plain wrong in many aspects (some of them facts, not just my opinion).