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

* Elvis Daniel Velea

> Tore has also pointed out some precedent where ASSIGNED PIs have been
> changed to ALLOCATED PAs.

Small correction here, I only noted that there exist some ALLOCATED PA
in the database that are smaller than the minimum allocation size. I do
not know how that came to be, so I don't know if they were ASSIGNED PI
before.

My point was that the minimum allocation size doesn't appear to be a
hard limit on what is the minimum ALLOCATED PA object that is allowed to
exist in the registry; but rather it should be considered the minimum
allocation size the RIPE NCC is willing to issue[1] new at any given
time. A PI->PA conversion isn't a "new issue" in that way, hence there's
no real reason to apply the minimum allocation size, IMHO. As those
mini-assignments are already in the registry, it doesn't hurt
aggregation either.

In any case, it would appear to me that the community is simply waiting
for someone (perhaps you and/or Erik?) to care enough to actually submit
a formal policy proposal to allow for such conversions. The NCC
indicated that they felt clear policy was needed.

[1] This is irrelevant today in any case: min-size == max-size == /22.

Tore