[address-policy-wg] 2007-06: New Policy Proposal (Global Policy for the Allocationof the Remaining IPv4 Address Space)

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:09 +0200, Alex Le Heux wrote:
> PDP Number: 2007-06
> Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> A new RIPE Policy has been proposed and is now available for
> discussion.
> 
> This policy describes the process for the allocation of the remaining
> IPv4 space from IANA to the RIRs. When a minimum amount of available
> space is reached, an identical number of IPv4 allocation units (/8s)
> will be allocated from IANA to each RIR, replacing the current IPv4
> allocation policy.


The proposal claims to create "certainty on how the remaining space will
be allocated". 

To me it seems the only advantage is to the RIRs with a slow burn-rate
who may get space to allocate for 1-2 years longer than the big RIRs.
It's not obvious that this makes it easier to predict the exact date of
depletion -- for anyone. Nor does it anything to prevent a run on the
remaining resources.

How can/do you prevent registry-shopping in the period after the first
RIRs run out of addresses? 

To avoid a run between the RIRs to get the last few /8s it might be an
idea to hand out at least one /8 to each RIR in the last round.
Alternatively one could define a last chunk of /8s to be split between
the RIRs according to their burn-rate in the last months leading up to
that point. 

Although impossible, I belive the best would be if all RIRs run out at
the exact same time which is the opposite of what the suggested policy
aim to achieve.

 
//per