[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Draft Document Published (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

All,

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 06:01:54PM +0100, Filiz Yilmaz wrote:
> PDP Number: 2007-08
> Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources

This policy mostly makes sense to me.

One thing I'm not sure about is this:

    LIRs that receive a re-allocation from another LIR cannot
    re-allocate complete or partial blocks of the same address space
    to another LIR within 24 months of receiving the re-allocation.

Is this to prevent IP address speculation and the accompanying
boom/bust cycles? (Sorry if I missed a prior discussion about this,
the thread surrounding the previous version was long and meandering.)

This is reasonable, but I think it might be better to simply state:
  
    Complete or partial blocks of the same address space cannot be
    re-allocated within 24 months of a re-allocation.

Otherwise there is a difference between "bought" and "leased"(*) space
(permanent and non-permanent re-allocation), since space that is
re-allocated on a temporary basis can be re-allocated by the
*original* LIR at any time.

Not a big deal. I support the policy either with or without this
change.

--
Shane

(*) I know the RIRs shy away from such terms for various reasons
    mostly to do with fear of government involvement, but I propose we
    choose to be brave and use the terminology that best matches
    intuition.