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

* Wilfried Woeber

> I soemwhat lost track about the RIPE Region's Address Transfer Policy
> (proposal/s), so please bear with me.
> 
> IMHO we SHOULD try to remove insconsistencies and special cases in
> the various policies and their interpretation.
> 
> Thus: if there is (or will be) a (lower) limit in a/the Transfer
> Policy, then the same SHOULD apply in moving blocks from PI to PA.
> 
> OTOH, if the community agrees and lifting size restrictions, then
> this should be done consistently across the board.

The current PA-only transfer policy states: «The block that is to be
re-allocated must not be smaller than the minimum allocation block size
at the time of re-allocation».

In other words blocks smaller than /22 may not be transferred,
regardless of PI or PA status. Since the policy is quite explicit on
this point, changing it would require the community to adopt a policy
proposal that explicitly made such a change.

[BTW: The policy also states that the minimum allocation size is /21,
but there have been a couple of /22 transfers already. I assume the NCC
is considering the /21 statement as superseded by the last /8 policy and
considers the minimum allocation size to be /22 instead.]

Tore