[address-policy-wg] RE: address-policy-wg digest, Vol 1 #1183 - 6 msgs

I would advise everyone to be very careful about allowing an organization to arbitrarily define something as "implementation" or "management practice" rather than "policy," especially when such a unilateral redefinition allows important processes and public input to be bypassed. 

--MM

> -----Original Message-----
> > Geoff Huston's report states that: "At the time IANA reaches the last
> > 5 /8s (the "IANA Exhaustion time" as defined by current address
> > allocation policies), these unassigned addresses in the legacy /8s are
> > then distributed evenly to the RIRs." I am not sure where this
> > information came from though, since this is not spelled out in the
> > "Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space" policy
> > (http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm)
> > as far as I can discern.
> 
> This is presumably an address management practice agreed by the NRO
> rather than a matter of policy.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Leo Vegoda=
> 
>