Gert, On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 11:50 AM, Gert Doering wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:48:28AM +0200, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:

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I have one question, trying to understand the main goal of the exercise:

* Is the aim of the a new PI policy to adjust the policy to the requests and needs of the industry or is it a way of getting a "special allocation" policy by another name?

My aim is to adjust the policy (actually both PA and PI policy) to match observed need.

That is good.

People are requesting *multiple* PI blocks because they can't get a PA allocation, and that seems to be just wrong to me.

Just to spell it out clearly: - Is it people who do not meet the minimum allocation size for PA? I guess these ones would ask for a single PI assignment? - Is it people who find it to be so much hassle to get an allocation that they end up requesting multiple PI blocks with the same amount of addresses? - People who have multiple sites and if they get a normal PA block will need to split it and end up with a bunch of non-routable sites? Other? Just trying to understand. One last thing. There is something that makes it unusually attractive to have PI space: it usually comes from "old" blocks (192/8, 193-195/8) where you don't have to bother with anyone filtering you if you have at least a /24 (damn easy to justify). Joao