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

Hi All,

On 6/25/13 11:58 AM, Wilfried Woeber wrote:
> Tore Anderson wrote:
>
>> * 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 is considering the /21 statement as superseded by the last /8 policy and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.]

This statement is correct: we consider the /21 statement as superseded 
by the last /8 policy, according to which the minimum allocation size is 
/22.

> OK, thanks Tore!
>
> So - question to the IPRAs: what sizes of PI blocks did you see when the
> PI->PA conversion requests were submitted?

Most of the requests for conversion from assigned PI to allocated PA 
have been for IP blocks larger than the minimum allocation size (mainly 
/20 and /19 blocks). Just in very few cases the IP blocks were smaller 
than the minimum allocation size (/23 and /24 blocks).


Best regards,

Andrea Cima
RIPE NCC

> Wilfried.
>
>> Tore
>
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