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

[Leo Vegoda]

On 25 Jul 2007, at 18:59, Brian Dickson wrote:

[...]

> In environments where fixed capacity has a very specific upper limit,
> such as filling a fuel
> tank, the "best common practice" is to fill at full speed until some
> critical level is reached,
> and then to slow the fill rate substantially, and as needed, repeating
> this until the tank is full.
>
> This avoids overfilling, or other nasty effects.
>
> Changing the size of CIDR blocks given to RIRs, at some point, would
> increase the number
> of blocks available, thus ensuring that fair allocations continue  
> to occur.
>
> E.g. when there are 6 of the /8 ranges left, start allocating / 
> 10's, of
> which there would be 24.
> And when there are 6 of the /10's left, start allocating /12's, etc.

Do you want to change the unit size or the maximum amount of space  
that can be allocated? The current global policy allows the RIRs to  
receive all the space they need and changing the way it is measured  
from /8s to /10s doesn't change anything other than add extra lines  
to the IPv4 registry.

Regards,

Leo Vegoda