RE: [lir-wg] RE: [ipv6-wg@localhost] Discussion about RIPE-261

["Ray Plzak" <]

> 
> I don't find this very flexible. If you look at what happened with
> LACNIC, countries from ARIN were transferred to LACNIC. I expect that
> when AFRINIC is activated, countries from both RIPE and ARIN will be
> transferred to AFRINIC.

In general this did not happen with LACNIC.  ARIN had been allocating
IPv4 space out of 200 /8.  The remainder of the /8 was transferred to
LACNIC at activation.  ARIN tried to get a separate /23 of v6 space for
LACNIC allocations but was refused by ICANN/IANA, hence allocation were
made from an ARIN /23.  LACNIC has since recieved their own /23 and are
working with those ISPs to renumber.

In regards to AfriNIC, ARIN has tried to allocate out of a block for
just AfriNIC for v4.  ARIN requested a separate /23 for v6 but was
refused by ICANN/IANA.

Ray