[address-policy-wg] 2016-03 New Policy Proposal (Locking Down the Final /8 Policy)
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Aleksey Bulgakov
aleksbulgakov at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 00:27:43 CEST 2016
So, if this policy is approved, all allocations will have 'final-allocated' status and return to the NCC if there are more than 2 allocations with 'final-allocated' status. Or I don't understand this policy and it should be changed 7 июня 2016 г. 1:17 пользователь "Jim Reid" <jim at rfc1035.com> написал: > > > On 6 Jun 2016, at 22:54, Aleksey Bulgakov <aleksbulgakov at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Why are we talking about 185./8 only? > > We are not. You might be though. :-) > > Current policy applies to ALL IPv4 address space held by the NCC. Or that > may be obtained by the NCC somehow, say because it was returned by an LIR > or a future allocation from IANA of freshly reclaimed space. > > This policy has been commonly called “last /8” as a sort of shorthand by > the community. Sadly, this name is misleading. Some have assumed the policy > only applies to allocations made by the NCC out of its last /8: 185/8. It > doesn’t. It applies to all allocations from now on regardless of which > chunk of a /8 held by the NCC gets chosen to issue a one-time-only /22 to > an LIR. > > The policy became known as “last /8” because it came into effect as soon > as the NCC had to make an allocation from its final /8 allocation from > IANA. ie An LIR's request was too big to be satisfied from a block > elsewhere in the NCC’s pool of available space and therefore had to come > from an allocation out of 185/8. At that point, the previous policy of > needs-based allocation ended and LIRs could only get a single /22. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/attachments/20160607/1a7baafc/attachment.html>
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