[address-policy-wg] Guidance Requested: Changing the Status of PI Address Space
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Carsten Schiefner
ripe-wgs.cs at schiefner.de
Thu Jun 20 13:28:19 CEST 2013
Andrea, all - full ACK to both: * Allow status change from LIRs' PI assignments to PA allocations and to Tore's point: * Omission of the minimum allocation size constraint Cheers, -C. On 20.06.2013 10:20, Tore Anderson wrote: > * andrea > >> A. Allow LIRs to change the status of their PI assignments to PA >> allocations (if equal or larger than the minimum allocation size) > > This. > > I cannot see how denying such requests could possibly be to the benefit > of the community. On the other hand I can clearly see that denying them > would be detrimental by making the NCC appear rigid, inflexible, and > customer-unfriendly; and likely also running counter to the policy's > Registration goal, as some of the LIRs that got such conversion requests > refused would likely go ahead and use the addresses as if they were > labeled PA anyway. > > There is some related precedent, cf. section 5.4 regarding conversion > from ALLOCATED PI and ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED to ALLOCATED PA. > > Personally, I'd even take it one step further and omit the minimum > allocation size constraint too. I consider the minimum allocation size a > policy mechanism that is only there to serve the Aggregation goal. > However, as these delegations are already made, merely relabeling them > does not make any difference when it comes to aggregation. > > Besides, it is some precedent here too afaict: > > ripencc|SE|ipv4|193.108.42.0|512|20010406|allocated > ripencc|DE|ipv4|193.218.220.0|512|19981110|allocated > ripencc|PT|ipv4|194.117.48.0|512|19941206|allocated > ripencc|IT|ipv4|194.153.212.0|512|20000509|allocated > > > Tore
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