[address-policy-wg] New Policy Proposal (PI - PA Transfer)

On 10/10/2013 11:57, Andrea Cima wrote:
> 1) Allow LIRs to change the status of their PI assignments into PA
> allocations (if equal or larger than the minimum allocation size)
> 2) Do not allow LIRs to change the status of their PI assignments into PA allocations

Andrea,

On May 7 2009, Alex le Heux posted a breakdown of IPv4 PI assignment
statistics:

> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/2009-May/004212.html

This indicated at at the time, only ~20% of all ipv4 PI assignments were
/22 or larger.

The two choices presented here mean that the 80% of people with PI
assignments of /23 or less would be disenfranchised by this policy
regardless of which way it might go.  Also it's not compatible with the
efforts under way to unify pi/pa ipv6.

I.e. I don't think that either of these options is necessarily a good idea.

Nick