[ppml] Policy Proposal: Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space

[William Herrin]

On 7/25/07, Andrew Dul <andrew.dul at quark.net> wrote:
> >  It
> >  will also be a clear message to the rest of the community about how the
> >  IANA pool will be distributed and by doing that avoiding discussion
> >  outside the RIR environment.
>
> I think the current policy accurately describes what will happen.  RIRs will keep
> asking for /8 allocations until there are no more available.  You don't know who
> will get the last allocation, but you do know how it will happen.

Andrew,

The problem is, it could happen two days after ARIN requests its next
/8 block but it could also happen two days before. It could be a nasty
"gotcha."

By assigning the final blocks in a big chuck to all of the registries,
each registry would have at least a couple months of warning before
the final "all gone." Would the extra warning be useful? Squandered? I
don't know. I do know that it is less chaotic than the first-come
first-served until sold out ending and chaos is the enemy of
responsible stewardship.


I'm against this proposal with N=5 because I don't think it
distributes the final /8's fairly. But with N=1 (a final /8 to each
registry all at the same time) I think think this proposal would be
reasonable.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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