[address-policy-wg] IPv4 PA assignments policy change draft proposal

Hi,

On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 01:55:33PM +0200, James Kennedy wrote:
> The DBTF didn't identify a need to change the policy for LIRs
> registering/documenting blocks of PA that they issue to third parties
> in the RIPE Database. But we did see the need to change the policy for
> LIR Infrastructure PA Assignments - some LIRs flood the Database with
> huge volumes of very small infrastructure PA Assignments that would be
> extremely difficult to keep up-to-date, and the TF recommends
> "limiting and discouraging the use of the RIPE Database as an
> enterprise IPAM solution".

This policy proposal would be the wrong vehicle to achieve any outcome
towards *that* account - assignment-to-self would still be possible, just
no more mandatory.

This sounds more like a task for the training department or for the ARCs
than for a policy change to me.

OTOH: from a database utilization perspective, why would "I put all of
my /22 in the DB in form of /29 and /30" be worse than "I use a /16
for customer assignments, /30../24, and register them all (as I MUST
do)"?  The latter would be many times more objects...

Are we no longer aiming for accurate registration, because the DBTF finds
that too resource consuming?  I'm not sure I understand that line of
argument.

(Especially if used as an enterprise IPAM - or, more likely, as a mirror
of the IPAM - accuracy is likely higher than if someone just manually puts 
aggregates into the DB whenever he feels like it.  No?)

Gert Doering
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