[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Policy Proposal (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

On 29 Oct 2007, at 22:18, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> On 29 okt 2007, at 15:47, Nigel Titley wrote:
>
>> Leo has already proved that a (fairly simple) reclamation job  
>> takes a lot of time and resource. This is for a /8 that no one  
>> much wanted and no one much used.
>
> Was that the 14/8 thing? Only 129 individual addresses out of  
> 16777216 where used. Maybe just reclaiming the other 16777087 would  
> have been more efficient.

Nearly, but not quite. It was 984 addresses but your point is valid  
anyway. Just marking the first /22 as reserved and making the rest of  
the space available to the RIRs would have been easier but it isn't  
very neat and tidy and doesn't fit with the policy approved by the  
five RIR communities.

At the moment the main problem with doing what you suggest is that  
the current global policy for allocating IPv4 space to RIRs requires  
us to "allocate IPv4 address space to the RIRs in /8 units." 99.99%  
of a /8 is close but it's not 100%.

Frankly, fixing things so that the policy works is probably better  
than waiting until the end and publicly stating that the policy is  
inconvenient and so we'll ignore it.

Leo