[arin-ppml] Policy for IANA to hand out v4 post exhaustion question.

[Hannigan, Martin]

Folks,

The hardest part about writing a global policy that instructs the IANA to do
something is how to make it so that it isn't onerous (costly) and that it is
fair and balanced. In the interest of trying to get something palatable, I
wanted to post some work that has transpired on just this issue for comments
and perhaps some fresh ideas.

For example, hypothetically of course, if the below were to be proposed,
what would the objections or suggestions to this be? These are not finished
thoughts, just some text around how all five regions might deem the fairness
issue.


--draft
X.X.X.X Address Allocation from the Reclaimation Pool when Demand Exceeds
Supply

When the Reclaimation Pool has less address space than is required to
fulfill the projected demand, each RIR will be offered an equally sized
allocation. 

Aggregates in the Reclaimation Pool may be divided on a CIDR boundary up to
the shortest minimum allocation / assignment of each of the RIRs, excluding
micro-allocations / assignments in order to complete these allocations.
Addresses that are left over will be held in the Reclaimation Pool until
additional IP addresses are returned.

--End draft

Of course, this isn't the whole work product, but again I think that aside
from the politics, this is the hardest part of getting a solid policy
accepted and implemented.

There was some thought about an option of "When Supply exceed Demand". Does
anyone think that this condition would be an important consideration in a
global policy that allows the IANA to allocate returned v4 post exhaustion?


I'm hoping to cull a few options from the respective community.

Negative, positive, constructive and amusing feedback appreciated.

Best,

-M<


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