[arin-ppml] IPv4 Run Out Proposals

[Leo Vegoda]

On 30/07/2009 2:58, "David Farmer" <farmer at umn.edu> wrote:

[...]

> When the IANA free pool reaches 20 or fewer /8s, an
> organization may choose to request up to a 6 month supply of
> IP addresses;
> 
> When the IANA free pool reaches 10 or fewer /8s, an
> organization may choose to request up to a 3 month supply of
> IP addresses;

I think the term "IANA free pool" needs to be unambiguously defined in order
to understand your text. The current "Global Policy for the Allocation of
the Remaining IPv4 Address Space" states that the five /8s set aside for the
final allocation to the RIRs are "no longer be part of the available space
at the IANA pool" and so might confuse things.

Do you intend to include those five /8s? In order to avoid the possibility
of misinterpretation, it might be clearest to use a phrase like "unallocated
IPv4 /8s" or something like that.

Regards,

Leo Vegoda