[address-policy-wg] Last Call - 2023-04 (Add AGGREGATED-BY-LIR status

Dear Address Policy WG,

There was a consensus on this proposal and we are moving it forward to
Last Call. The RIPE NCC will publish an announcement with dates.

There was a request, in Rome, for clarity over whether aggregated
assignments needed to have a fixed size or could vary. The proposers
suggested that a fixed size should be optional.

We extended the list discussion by a month and the two issues raised
have been addressed.

One was End User sites not having the End User's own admin-c instead
of the LIR's. There has been extensive discussion of this. One key
reason given is that it is common and acceptable to outsource a part
of an organisation's operations to another, more skilled, operator.
The RIPE NCC's impact analysis noted that the proposal "simply leaves
the status quo unchanged." It would not need to update its operational
processes.

Concerns were also raised that aggregating assignments would impact
criminal investigations. But this proposal is intended to improve the
quality of data registered by offering LIRs a less arduous way to
share registration data. At the end of 2023 there were over 19,000 PA
allocations without any assignments. Those LIRs that want to share
data are already doing so. Those who would like to share some data if
it were easier to do so will be accommodated if this proposal becomes
policy.

Kind regards,

Leo Vegoda, for the Address Policy WG co-chairs