[arin-ppml] Statistics regarding NRPM 8.3 Transfers to date

[David Farmer]

On 4/29/11 15:55 CDT, John Curran wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Scott Leibrand wrote:
>> Org A transfers part of their allocation/assignment to Org B.
>
> Note that space in a transfer could easily be only part of an
> original allocation, and still be the smallest block possible
> to transfer... i.e. I'm not certain how this metric is useful,
> but will endeavor to research and deliver this information.
>
>> Org C receives multiple CIDR blocks (or continuous address
>> ranges) from whatever source(s).
>
> The 10 recipient organizations received a total of 18 contiguous
> IPv4 address blocks; several of those recipients received blocks
> which were composed of adjacent /24's.

I assume from that that answer to the following would be, no then.

- If the original allocations were aggregate-able, would you aggregate 
them in the database as part of the transfer, or transfer the original 
allocations as-is?

Specific hypothetical situations;
- If the original allocations were made as two adjacent /16s and on the 
necessary bit boundary, would you transfer two 16s or one /15 in the 
database?
- If the original allocations were a large contiguous range of /24s, 
would you transfer them as N /24 blocks, or would make any partial 
aggregations that you could in the database? (I think resulting in at 
most Floor((N/2)+1) blocks )

I'll grant you there was nothing in the policy that required or even 
suggested aggregation of the original blocks.  However, there is noting 
in my interpretation of the policy that would prevent it either.  Would 
you agree?  Is there an operational downside to aggregating the blocks 
in the database, when possible, as part of the transfer that I'm not seeing?


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