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

On 20 Feb 2009, at 16:17, Nigel Titley wrote:

> 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.

Hi, Nigel

Thank you for the clarification.

I'm a bit worried that this policy as it stands could lead to address  
resources flowing from resource starved regions, to regions who are  
today already resource rich.  I can't work out if it's more equitable  
to let that happen, or more equitable for us to try to encourage  
address poor regions to retain their resources to cater for internet  
growth in these regions.

I would want to see an exhaustive list of scenarios that are possible  
under this policy before voicing a formal opinion.

Kind regards,
Andy Davidson