Good idea, but judging from the increased trend to de-aggregation of existing subnets in order to allow multi-homing of PA-subnets, I doubt that there'll be many people interested, given the (usually) necessary work that has to be put into renumbering ... while going against the trend with this suggestion might be nice for the overall community by saving some memory on all of our routers, the advantage for the ISP or person returning multiple subnets for a larger one is (usually) rather small ... if, of course, RIPE would incentivize by - e.g. - returning a /21 for 6 /24's, I guess some people might be interested ;) But then people not that "lucky" to have multiple small PAs would complain, as would (rightfully so) the ones interested in conserving IP addresses ;)Hello,
One of the goals of RIPE is to aggregate IP addresses. I'd like to suggest the ability for a LIR and End User to exchange number of blocks of IP ranges for a greater block.
For example:LIR/End User has 4 different /22 subnets and LIR/End User can exchange these subnets for 1 x /20 subnet.
This gives a LIR or End User the possibility to announce larger IP subnets to the Internet. Helping the goal of aggregating the IP addresses on the Internet.
According one of the RIPE trainer, this is currently not possible according the RIPE policy. Because there's no policy to give a LIR/End User this ability.
I'm curious to what you think of this idea.