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Re: [address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Policy Proposal (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)
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To: Iljitsch van Beijnum iljitsch@localhost
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From: Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@localhost
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:53:10 +0100
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Cc: Nigel Titley nigel@localhost, Max Tulyev president@localhost, address-policy-wg@localhost
On 29 Oct 2007, at 22:18, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 29 okt 2007, at 15:47, Nigel Titley wrote:
Leo has already proved that a (fairly simple) reclamation job
takes a lot of time and resource. This is for a /8 that no one
much wanted and no one much used.
Was that the 14/8 thing? Only 129 individual addresses out of
16777216 where used. Maybe just reclaiming the other 16777087 would
have been more efficient.
Nearly, but not quite. It was 984 addresses but your point is valid
anyway. Just marking the first /22 as reserved and making the rest of
the space available to the RIRs would have been easier but it isn't
very neat and tidy and doesn't fit with the policy approved by the
five RIR communities.
At the moment the main problem with doing what you suggest is that
the current global policy for allocating IPv4 space to RIRs requires
us to "allocate IPv4 address space to the RIRs in /8 units." 99.99%
of a /8 is close but it's not 100%.
Frankly, fixing things so that the policy works is probably better
than waiting until the end and publicly stating that the policy is
inconvenient and so we'll ignore it.
Leo
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