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

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.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se