[address-policy-wg] 2007-06: New Policy Proposal (Global Policy for the Allocationof the Remaining IPv4 Address Space)
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Per Heldal
heldal at eml.cc
Mon Jul 30 21:01:50 CEST 2007
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:09 +0200, Alex Le Heux wrote: > PDP Number: 2007-06 > Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space > > Dear Colleagues, > > A new RIPE Policy has been proposed and is now available for > discussion. > > This policy describes the process for the allocation of the remaining > IPv4 space from IANA to the RIRs. When a minimum amount of available > space is reached, an identical number of IPv4 allocation units (/8s) > will be allocated from IANA to each RIR, replacing the current IPv4 > allocation policy. The proposal claims to create "certainty on how the remaining space will be allocated". To me it seems the only advantage is to the RIRs with a slow burn-rate who may get space to allocate for 1-2 years longer than the big RIRs. It's not obvious that this makes it easier to predict the exact date of depletion -- for anyone. Nor does it anything to prevent a run on the remaining resources. How can/do you prevent registry-shopping in the period after the first RIRs run out of addresses? To avoid a run between the RIRs to get the last few /8s it might be an idea to hand out at least one /8 to each RIR in the last round. Alternatively one could define a last chunk of /8s to be split between the RIRs according to their burn-rate in the last months leading up to that point. Although impossible, I belive the best would be if all RIRs run out at the exact same time which is the opposite of what the suggested policy aim to achieve. //per
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