My LIR have got ALLOCATED PI and ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED blocks about 20 years ago, according to those days policy. Some part of address space was not aggregated and was used as "ASSIGNED PI within ALLOCATED PI", all of them have agreement with the LIR, which also was within the policy, at least not against. Why should we change anything here? Just because some LIRs lost their control over 50% of the address space allocated to them? Perhaps there are some other ways to restore it?
After the LIRs have finished their research, the RIPE NCC will:
- Convert assignments to ASSIGNED PA if it can be documented that the administrative responsibility lies with the LIR - Follow up directly with resource holders of ASSIGNED PI to apply the RIPE policy, “Contractual Requirements for Provider Independent Resource Holders in the RIPE NCC Service Region”. The PI assignments will become part of the address space managed by the RIPE NCC just like all other PI space. Once the resource holders have fulfilled the contractual requirements, they will have the same rights and obligations as any other End User of PI space. - Split the allocations to separate the PI assignments and convert the blocks that remain with an LIR to ALLOCATED PA.
i am perennially confused by the different colors of integers. as you know, i prefer magenta and comic sans. ingrid/ncc can you explain in terms an antique router geek can understand what the actual pragmatic effect would be on these PI/PA holders? does it alter holders' rights? costs? processes? ... i suspect that you, larisa, already understand that. in this case, why, in pragmatic terms a router geek can understand (yes, i know that's a high bar, sorry), do you not like it? randy