[address-policy-wg] Draft Proposal: Assignment of an IPv4 /24 for documentation purposes

Hi Geoff,

> Perhaps I may be permitted to add some background data here.

Ofcourse! Thank you :)

> My interpretation of the relative roles of the RIRs, IANA and the IETF 
> in this area is that such reservations, as distinct from allocations or 
> assignments, should be performed by the IANA, and for IANA to undertake 
> this it should be part of the protocol's address plan, and hence should 
> be published as an RFC. i.e. as far as I understand the situation such 
> reservations of number resources for documentation purposes falls to 
> IANA to perform, and the instructions to IANA are in the form of a 
> published RFC. The logical inference is that such proposals should head 
> to the IETF rather than the RIRs.

I had the same feeling, but it's good to get this background information.

Thanks,
Sander