[address-policy-wg] Assignments from a /24 allocation

Colleagues

The issue came up again today at the AP-WG session at RIPE-83 about
making assignments from a /24 allocation. People are forced to create
two 'artificial' /25 assignments. Again this is used as one argument
against having to register assignments in the RIPE Database.
Regardless of the bigger picture about registering assignments, there
is a simple solution to the /24 allocation issue. Make the "status:"
attribute multiple. Then this /24 INETNUM object can have:
status: ALLOCATED PA
status: ASSIGNED PA

Business rules can restrict the use of multiple status to very
specific use cases. Maybe only allow a second status of 'ASSIGNED PA'
in an object with status 'ALLOCATED PA'. The normal rules then apply
to an assignment, so there can be no more specifics. Then any
allocation of any size can be assigned in its entirety without having
to create more specific pseudo assignment objects. Business rules
could also allow this option for 'SUB-ALLOCATED PA'.

cheers
denis
co-chair DB-WG