[arin-ppml] ARIN-2011-9 (Global Proposal): Global Policy for post exhaustion IPv4 allocation mechanisms by the IANA - Last Call

[Randy Whitney]

On 10/19/2011 3:12 PM, ARIN wrote:
> The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) met on 14 October 2011 and decided to
> send the following draft policy to last call:
>
> Draft Policy ARIN-2011-9 (Global Proposal)
> Global Policy for post exhaustion IPv4 allocation mechanisms by the IANA
>
> Date: 22 September 2011
>
> Policy statement:
>
> The IANA shall establish a Recovered IPv4 Pool to be utilized post
> RIR IPv4 exhaustion. The Recovered IPv4 Pool will initially contain
> any fragments that may be left over in the IANA. It will also hold
> any space returned to the IANA by any other means.
> The Recovered IPv4 Pool will be administered by the IANA. It will
> contain:

...

> The NRO must clarify that this Global Policy is not intended to
> supersede the IETF’s right to make IPv4 assignments for
> “specialised address blocks (such as multicast or anycast
> blocks)” as documented in section 4.3 of RFC 2860. The
> NRO and IANA should coordinate with the IETF to make such
> assignments as necessary, and honor any reservations made
> for works currently in progress.

I'm not sure I understand this concern. Do we see this happening on
either side? Do we see IETF making "new" assignments outside of what has
been defined for many years (under the classfull system, IIRC)? Do we
see IANA trying to break into Class E space, for example, for new
allocations?

I support immediate adoption of this proposal, preferably without this
last statement. I don't really wish to delay the adoption of this policy
by trying to force a formal statement out of the NRO nor delay
subsequent RIR allocations under this policy by compelling IANA to
coordinate these allocation efforts with IETF, when no such cooperation
is required.

(To complete this thought: if in the future, IANA chooses to break into
IETF space for allocations, we as a community could always write new
policy to reject the reserved space as invalid.)

Best Regards,
Randy