[ppml] Question

[John M. Brown]

how did you make these tests ?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of Harsha Narayan
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:04 PM
> To: John M. Brown
> Cc: 'Harsha Narayan'; ppml at arin.net
> Subject: RE: [ppml] Question
> 
> 
> Hi,
>   Do you mean that if an RIR uses up 80% of a /8, it gets a 
> new /8 from IANA?
> 
> However, I found that 6 out of ARIN's 17 /8s were below 80% 
> utilization.
> 
> The numbers for RIPE and APNIC are 3 out of 9 and 2 out of 9 
> respectively.
> 
> Why is there a difference?
> 
> Thank you very much for your reply.
> 
> Harsha.
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, John M. Brown wrote:
> 
> > RFC 2050
> >
> > but I think the 80 percent rule should NOT be applied
> > to RIR's.  That would be a /8 for every 10 the get...
> >
> > It would also be handy if ICANN actually did an audit of
> > the RIR's and their space allocations someday :)
> >
> > basicly, when the RIR thinks its going to run out, they
> > ask IANA for another
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of 
> > > Harsha Narayan
> > > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 5:52 PM
> > > To: ppml at arin.net
> > > Subject: [ppml] Question
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >   Could you please answer the following question?
> > >
> > >   Under what circumstances or conditions does ARIN or any 
> other RIR 
> > > get a new /8 fron IANA/ICANN?
> > >
> > > Harsha.
> > >
> >
>