[address-policy-wg] A comment on 2008-03 & 2007-09
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Raul Echeberria
raul at lacnic.net
Mon Jun 2 16:49:00 CEST 2008
Michael: I disagree with you. RIR YES would need a policy for doing what you are suggesting. In fact, the policy proposed is a particular case of what you are suggestign. When there are only 5 /8s IANA ask all the RIRs what would be your future (short term) needs. And obviously the answer would be "At least one /8". Raúl At 06:59 a.m. 01/06/2008, michael.dillon at bt.com wrote: > > I am curious about other situation. > > Suppose that IANA allocates the last 2 /8s to the RIR A and > > one day later IANA receives a request from the RIR B that is > > running out of > > IPv4 addresses while the RIR A has (at least) 2 /8s. > >I don't think that IANA would ever do this because it would be >an incredibly stupid thing to do. Since I have never heard IANA >being accused of gross incompetence before, I have to believe >that when they receive that request from RIR A, they will ask all >the other RIRs about how many addresses they need before allocating >anything. In fact, I expect IANA to do this well before the last >2 /8 blocks. Then, after consulting all RIRs, I expect IANA to >publish their intentions and ask for comments before allocating >any blocks. > >This is just good business practice and I don't think that the RIRs >need to write policies which tell IANA to do this. > >--Michael Dillon > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG. >Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.4/1474 >- Release Date: 30/05/2008 07:44 a.m.
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