[address-policy-wg] 2009-01, Global Policy for the allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries

Thu Oct 8 21:27:29 CEST 2009

On 08/10/2009 10:31, "Nigel Titley" <nigel at titley.com> wrote:

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> Well, this is slightly disingenuous, as IANA currently only accepts
> returned /8s. 

I would re-phrase that as "current policy only allows IANA to allocate to
RIRs in multiples of /8". I think it's worth distinguishing between a lack
of willingness and pointlessness. Until there is a policy allowing smaller
allocations to RIRs there's no point in returning anything less than a /8 to
the IANA free pool.

Regards,

Leo Vegoda
Number Resources Manager, IANA