> 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
