[address-policy-wg] An interesting policy question

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 06:21:27PM +0100, h.lu at anytimechinese.com wrote:
> And if my fellow colleague here has an opinion on this interpretation of "need" as well as the two examples I was given, enlighten me your thought, would really appreciated.

If the customer just moves the same amount of stuff from A to B without
anything changing hands or a reduction in the number of machines/services, 
*need* will still be satisfied.

But Andrea has raised a significant point here: if *documentation* is not 
updated, the assignment is no longer valid, as that is a strict requirement
(both for direct PI assignments and for PA-through-LIR assignments, it
was not clear from your e-mail which sort you are referring to).

Assuming PI, and assuming you are talking about the RIPE NCC making
assignments ("Ripe" can not make assignments, as that's the policy-making
community, read: all of us), I'm fairly sure the e-mail that contains
the actual network that has been assigned clearly contains that requirement,
to always keep the documentation up to date.

Now, answerung to your second example: if you documented need for 3 locations,
and part of that documentation contained something like "we need to upgrade 
the assignment size to a /24 to handle routing requirements, but we really 
only have 3 hosts on each site" - and then you move everything to one 
location, the original criteria would *not* apply any longer, as a single 
/24 would perfectly well serve to number these combined 9 hosts plus the
routing requirements.

So, individual cases are different (and I fully trust the NCC to understand
the fine nuances, and to apply pain where necessary).

Gert Doering
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