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

Agreed.

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Carsten Schiefner wrote:

> Andrea, all -
>
> full ACK to both:
>
> * Allow status change from LIRs' PI assignments to PA allocations
>
> and to Tore's point:
>
> * Omission of the minimum allocation size constraint
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	-C.
>
> On 20.06.2013 10:20, Tore Anderson wrote:
>>  * 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
>
>

Best Regards,

Daniel Stolpe

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