[arin-ppml] IPv4 Run Out Proposals

[David Farmer]

On 3 Aug 2009 Leo Vegoda wrote:

> 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.

As written, the intent is to include the five reserved /8s.  I agree this need to 
be clearified.

So how about; 

When IANA reaches 20 or fewer unallocated /8s , an organization may 
choose to request up to a 6 month supply of IP addresses;  

When IANA reaches 10 or fewer unallocated /8s , an organization may 
choose to request up to a 3 month supply of IP addresses;  

And then add the following as the second paragraph of the Rationale;

The reductions in the length of supply will be triggered by IANA reaching 
defined levels of unallocated /8s, including the /8s reserved as part of section 
10.4 of the NRPM.  These triggers have been chosen base on the current 
rate of consumption of /8s by the RIRs.


> Regards,
> 
> Leo Vegoda
> 



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