[address-policy-wg] A comment on 2008-03 & 2007-09
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David Conrad
drc at virtualized.org
Fri May 30 20:19:06 CEST 2008
On May 30, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Raul Echeberria wrote: >> Suppose we fast forward to ~2011 and you've just been rejected by >> RIPE- NCC because they have no more address space to hand out whereas >> AfriNIC and LACNIC both have (at least) a full /8. >> >> I'm curious: what do you think is going to happen? > > David: > > 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. > > What do you think is going to happen? My understanding of the current policy regime is that IANA only allocates unused addresses. With the allocation of the last /8, IANA would be out of the IPv4 business. As such, it would be up to the RIRs involved to negotiate some "fair" solution (if any). Regards, -drc
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