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

Nigel,

On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Nigel Titley wrote:
> This policy is intended to redress that balance, ie to ensure that  
> when address space is recovered in the RIPE, ARIN and APNIC regions  
> (to take an example) it can flow into the LACNIC and AFRINIC  
> regions, who having less history have less address space that can be  
> recovered. Hence the "equitable" description earlier.

My understanding of consumption patterns is that the RIPE, ARIN, and  
APNIC regions will consume their free pools much more quickly than  
LACNIC and AfriNIC.  Indeed, some projections I've seen have AfriNIC  
having large blocks of unused address space long past the time when  
the unallocated pools in the other regions are exhausted.  In such a  
situation, would it be "equitable" for (say) a non-profit, public  
benefit supplier of Internet connectivity to orphans based in Geneva  
to be unable to obtain IPv4 address space whereas DeBeers or Shell  
Nigeria would be able to obtain as much address space as they like?

I suspect "equitable" is in the eye of the beholder and it will be  
important to be very, very explicit as to what particular goals the  
policy is attempting to reach "equitably".

Regards,
-drc