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

[Scott Leibrand]

Bill Herrin wrote:
>
> 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.

I would still favor a final allocation based on usage rate instead of a 
static value of "N".  If that is not something smaller RIRs like LACNIC 
and AfriNIC would support, though, I would agree with Bill, and would be 
OK with this proposal with a smaller value of N.

-Scott