[address-policy-wg] "ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED"

Hi,

some of you might already cringe just from this mail's subject ;-)
I'm currently involved in handling some netblocks which are in "ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED" state and this turns out to be surprisingly difficult, even in cases where both organizations (that is the LIR holding the covering aggregate and the organization which received the "more specific" PI assignment back in the 90s) apparently agree on a course of action. My impression is that these difficulties not least arise as seemingly no policy exists on "how to convert those assignments into 'ASSIGNED PI' or 'ALLOCATED PA' space". I'm aware that these netblocks might only be "remnant corner cases" totally irrelevant to the majority of the community. Which brings me to the following questions:

a) do any of you "feel the same pain" when it comes to these blocks?
b) do you think a policy proposal should be prepared how to handle those? I'm willing to prepare sth.
c) what could such a proposal look like? What do those concerned think how a reasonable way of moving those blocks into a "stable state" can be identified/described.

many thanks in advance for any type of feedback.
everybody have a pleasant evening

Enno


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