[ppml] Question

[CJ Wittbrodt]

There has been a project underway for quite some time.  The RIRs 
have been in the process of moving the pre-RIR address space allocations
to their appropriate RIR.  

---CJ
    From: "Eric B. Decker" <cire at deckerstone.net>
    Subject: Re: [ppml] Question 
    >>>>> "jm" == McBurnett, Jim <jmcburnett at msmgmt.com> writes:
    
        jm> Harsha,
    
        jm> Unless I am wrong, I am willing to bet that ARIN
        jm> has more swamp space than RIPE and APNIC combined,
        jm> and don't forget the recent divesture of LACNIC..
        jm> Anyway... 
    
    I beleive that is correct.  I beleive that the Legacy space
    allocations (pre-RIPE) show up in ARIN land.
    
    -c
    aso ac - ARIN
    
        jm> This does sound awefully curious...
    
        jm> J
    
    
        >> 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.
        >>> >
        >>> 
        >> 
        >>