[arin-ppml] Did 2008-6 provide what Board needed?

[John Schnizlein]

Should the start be calculated from exhaustion of IANA's free pool?   
Recall that IANA's exhaustion will happen sooner than otherwise by the  
policy to disperse the last five /8s among the RIRs as soon as the  
normal allocations reach the last 5.  Actual exhaustion of free IPv4  
addresses happens when the RIR exhausts its pool.  Various proposals  
focussed on fairness toward the end might slow consumption of the  
RIR's pool still more.

Your goal of providing less uncertainty is a good one.  Let's not  
arrange a transfer policy experiment to expire just after the lack of  
free addresses makes it more important.

John

On 2009Apr14, at 9:49 AM, David Farmer wrote:
> ...
>
> By having 2008-6 dependent on IANA free pool exhaustion or the ARIN
> Region reaching a threshold of scarcity, whatever any of us intended  
> that to
> mean, does nothing to reduce the risk IPv4 scarcity represents to the
> community, does nothing to increase the predictability of the  
> situation, and
> provides no help in network planing.
>