[address-policy-wg] Proposal for change to the IPv4 PI allocation policy

Hello!

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:31:38PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Following a discussion between some people and the resulting request to
> bring the discussion here I would like to propose a change to allocation 
> policy for small PI blocks.
> 
> Today it's a problem that the ISP industry BCP involves filtering all 
> announcements smaller than /24 from BGP, this meaning that a smaller 
> allocation from RIPE is pretty much unusual in the "real world" if you 
> want to be on the public internet.
> 
> I would therefore like to see a discussion about making it an option to 
> actually get a /24 for routing reasons, disregarding current policy of 
> disallowing routing problems as justification to request an allocation 
> bigger than you might be able to justify from address usage alone.
> 
> I know I ran into this problem when I first started in the ISP business 
> around 1995, and it's still there, so might it be time to change? People 
> with enough experience will creatively "enhance" (ie lie) address requests 
> to actually reach the /24 size today, and people without experience will 
> make an honest request and then run into practical problems with their 
> newly allocated space when they want to use it in real life, due to it 
> being filtered because it's too small according to industry BCP. This is 
> of course a bad situation either way and I hope it can be rectified.
> 
> Thanks for your attention.


Do You mean PI *ASSIGNMENT*? According to ripe-368, no new PI allocations
are allowed.


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Dmitry Kiselev