[address-policy-wg] Re: [policy-announce] 2008-03 New Draft Document Published (Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space)

Filiz Yilmaz wrote:
> PDP Number: 2008-03
> Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> We have published a draft document for the proposal described in
> 2008-03 and the proposal is moved to Review Phase.
> 
> This proposal 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, one /8 will be allocated from IANA to
> each RIR, replacing the current IPv4 allocation policy.

I don't think a policy with a fixed size allocation to each RIR will do
any good once the IPv4 space is running really low, especially given that
the consumption speed of the RIRs is quite diverse.

I would much rather see an adaptive policy (for example as described in
2007-09) in place.

   Marcus