Hi,

As you might know, we are currently working on a policy proposal to allow the transfer of PI space.

One of the topics that I would like some input (prior to sending out the proposal itself) it the following:

In the current draft, I’ve phrased one of the ‘rules’ for the PI transfer as follows: 

- Assignments smaller than the minimal allocation size, can’t be split into smaller assignments, but can be re-assigned as a complete assignment.

My reasoning is that it would disallow cutting up small assignments into even smaller assignments.

So in the current situation a /23 PI assignment is smaller than the minimal allocation size, however assigned in the past by the RIPE NCC.

With the above stated ‘rule’ in the proposal, it would not be allowed to split up a PI assignment into 2 PI assignments of a /24 .. or 4 PI assignments of a /25, but it would be allowed to do a complete re-assignments as a /23.

With the current new proposal 2014-1 put forward today, the question that we discussed last week (myself, Marco and Andrea ) is that if we would put this forward, that this might need to be re-phrased. 

The question that I have is, would the community prefer a transfer policy proposal for PI with or without the above stated rule or limitation in freedom in transfers of PI.

The goal of the PI transfer policy proposal is to have it similar as the current Transfer policy for PA space.

Let’s hear it. 

Regards

Erik Bais