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

On May 30, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Raul Echeberria wrote:
>> Suppose we fast forward to ~2011 and you've just been rejected by  
>> RIPE- NCC because they have no more address space to hand out whereas
>> AfriNIC and LACNIC both have (at least) a full /8.
>>
>> I'm curious: what do you think is going to happen?
>
> David:
>
> 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.
>
> What do you think is going to happen?

My understanding of the current policy regime is that IANA only  
allocates unused addresses.  With the allocation of the last /8, IANA  
would be out of the IPv4 business.  As such, it would be up to the  
RIRs involved to negotiate some "fair" solution (if any).

Regards,
-drc