[address-policy-wg] A comment on 2008-03 & 2007-09

> I am curious about other situation.
> Suppose that IANA  allocates the last 2 /8s to the RIR A and 
> one day later IANA receives a request from the RIR B that is 
> running out of
> IPv4 addresses while the RIR A has (at least) 2 /8s.

I don't think that IANA would ever do this because it would be 
an incredibly stupid thing to do. Since I have never heard IANA
being accused of gross incompetence before, I have to believe
that when they receive that request from RIR A, they will ask all
the other RIRs about how many addresses they need before allocating
anything. In fact, I expect IANA to do this well before the last 
2 /8 blocks. Then, after consulting all RIRs, I expect IANA to 
publish their intentions and ask for comments before allocating
any blocks.

This is just good business practice and I don't think that the RIRs
need to write policies which tell IANA to do this. 

--Michael Dillon