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

Michael:

I disagree with you. RIR YES would need a policy 
for doing what you are suggesting.
In fact, the policy proposed is a particular case of what you are suggestign.

When there are only 5 /8s IANA ask all the RIRs 
what would be your future (short term) needs. And 
obviously the answer would be "At least one /8".

Raúl



At 06:59 a.m. 01/06/2008, michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:

> > 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
>
>
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