[address-policy-wg] 2011-01 Discussion Period extended until 19 May 2011 (Global Policy for post exhaustion IPv4 allocation mechanisms by the IANA)

Hi everyone,

Further to Emilio's e-mail (thanks Emilio), in order to encourage some
more discussion about the policy proposal itself, I would like to give a
little insight about the intentions of the proposal.

The proposal is based on two main principles:

1) Repetition: at the beginning of the year IANA distributed the last
five /8s available in one single go to each RIR. This was done according
to the "Global Policy for Remaining IPv4 Address Space" (ripe-634 in the
RIPE NCC service region). All the RIR communities agreed in the past to
have this type of distribution, equally partitioned, in a specific
special circumstance. (That special circumstance being the last IPv4 /8s
available in the IANA pool.)

We now have another special circumstance. The IANA pool has less than a
/8 remaining, and in the foreseeable future the amount of address space
in the pool will not be an exact known quantity as in the past. We know
there will be small amounts returned, and that it will be fragmented. If
it made sense for ripe-634, it makes sense now just to repeat something
that worked. And a distribution that would happen only twice a year.

2) Simplicity: the total IANA pool divided by the number of the RIRs. A
simple solution to handle a situation that nobody can efficiently
predict. Everyone receives the same, no differences between RIRs.

On behalf of my co-authors, I hope we can have more discussion about the
proposal itself in the next three weeks.

Best wishes,

philip
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