[address-policy-wg] Guidance Requested: Changing the Status of PI Address Space
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Christoph Neukirch
Christoph.Neukirch at xing.com
Thu Jun 20 12:53:02 CEST 2013
* Tore Anderson >* 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 fully agreed +1 kind regards Christoph
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