[address-policy-wg] "last /8" allocation size - community feedback request before engaging PDP

Richard, all -

On 14.09.2015 10:14, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN
> <ripe-wgs at radu-adrian.feurdean.net> wrote:
> 
>> 1. Separate pools or single pool
>>   a. have a "last /8 pool" which is 185.0.0.0/8 (strictly one /22 per
>>   LIR) and a "recovered space pool" containing all space received from
>>   IANA as "recovered and redistributed space" (for extra allocations) -
>>   APNIC-like separation of pools
>>   b. treat all addressing space available for allocation as a single
>>   pool
> 
> The only reason I can see is to keep the unused, continuous blocks in
> 185.0.0.0/8 if we ever need them for something else and thus try to
> get rid of the recovered pool first.

how about combining this by treating all addresses equal in a single
pool, but advising the NCC to hand out recovered addresses first unless
there are specific, yet-to-be-defined reasons that they rather need to
come from the 185/8 heap?

Cheers,

	-C.