[address-policy-wg] 2009-01 New Policy Proposal (Global Policy for the Allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries)

Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 20/02/2009 13:42, Nigel Titley wrote:
>> When the IPv4 address space runs out, anything that we get back gets
>> equitably shared amongst the RIRs
>
> Nigel,
>
> Can I ask what the purpose of the policy is?  Each RIR is going to
> have sufficient local demand for locally reclaimed ipv4 address blocks
> that it seems unlikely to me that reassigning all these reclaimed
> addresses back to IANA is going to have any real effect on
> availability for end-users.  This is particularly the case if there is
> going to be an address trading market where allocations have a
> quantifiable monetary value.
Personally I agree with you that people are likely to hang on to what
Ipv4 space they have until things have moved on so far that this space
is useless. However, what space is recovered is probably best shared
according to need, rather than just staying with the RIR where it was
originally allocated. This principle is what this global policy is about.

Nigel