[address-policy-wg] Guidance Requested: Changing the Status of PI Address Space

* 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