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

[Raul Echeberria]

Marty,

>> Marty's text calls for a equally sized allocation for each RIR. I'm
>> interested in knowing if this meets some 'fairness' test and is
>> congruence with needs-based allocation policy.
>
>
> One thought was linking the IANA allocations unit to the smallest  
> policy
> based allocation unit of all RIRs. The needs/eligibility based  
> portion of
> this might create a requirement such as an RIR needs to be "exhausted"
> before they can become eligible to participate in a round of  
> allocations
> from the IANA.

In fact, this is my interpretation of what is said in the original  
text of the global policy proposal

"A RIR is eligible to receive additional IPv4 address space from the  
IANA
when the total of its IPv4 address holdings is less than 50% of the
current IPv4 allocation unit, and providing that it has not already
received an IPv4 allocation from the IANA during the current IPv4
allocation period."

I have said that many times during the discussion. Those RIRs that  
have IP addresses for providing services in their regions for more  
time, will not be eligible for receiving allocations from this new  
pool for a long time.

It is not exactly the same that you say, since the requirement is not  
that the RIR has to be "exhausted", but "almost exhausted".


> So if an RIR was allocated a /20 based on the min alloc unit
> standard they would have to exhaust that allocation before being  
> eligible
> for another allocation. That could be fair since any RIR not  
> exhausting
> would be skipped over allowing other needs to be fairly fufilled.


While I think that it is the spirit of the proposal, i would not  
object being more restrictive as you propose.


Raúl


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