Tore Anderson wrote:
* Wilfried Woeber
I soemwhat lost track about the RIPE Region's Address Transfer Policy (proposal/s), so please bear with me.
IMHO we SHOULD try to remove insconsistencies and special cases in the various policies and their interpretation.
Thus: if there is (or will be) a (lower) limit in a/the Transfer Policy, then the same SHOULD apply in moving blocks from PI to PA.
OTOH, if the community agrees and lifting size restrictions, then this should be done consistently across the board.
The current PA-only transfer policy states: «The block that is to be re-allocated must not be smaller than the minimum allocation block size at the time of re-allocation».
In other words blocks smaller than /22 may not be transferred, regardless of PI or PA status. Since the policy is quite explicit on this point, changing it would require the community to adopt a policy proposal that explicitly made such a change.
[BTW: The policy also states that the minimum allocation size is /21, but there have been a couple of /22 transfers already. I assume the NCC is considering the /21 statement as superseded by the last /8 policy and considers the minimum allocation size to be /22 instead.]
OK, thanks Tore! So - question to the IPRAs: what sizes of PI blocks did you see when the PI->PA conversion requests were submitted? Wilfried.
Tore