[address-policy-wg] Checking interest in the community for changing IPv4 assignments policy

Hi Everyone,


Now RIPE 86 is around the corner Tore and I would like to check if there is any interest in changing the way of making assignments in the IPv4 policy. At this moment we got 3 major points coming repetitively back from the community. 

1. The current policy asks for a lot of repetitive work in making these assignments and it would be nice if, with a policy change, a lot of this repetitive work could be taken away. 

2. There is a lot of under and over-assigning in the RIPE DB where a policy change would be beneficial to take some of the reasons away for this. 

3. Policy 6.3 “Network Infrastructure and End User Networks” can be interpreted differently for what the right use case is. 

Including the feedback from the previous policy proposal, we are thinking about introducing AGGREGATED-BY-LIR status just as in the IPv6 policy. In this way, we can aggregate multiple assignments into one AGGREGATED-BY-LIR assignment which we think would result in improving the above-mentioned points. 

We would like to check what the community thinks about this plan and if there is enough positive feedback we would like to make a concept proposal from it and present this at RIPE86. 

Kind regards,

Jeroen