[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal 2009-01

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Nigel Titley <nigel at titley.com> wrote:

>
> >  The ARIN community identified that the decision to return recovered
> >  address space to the IANA is a local (not global) policy decision.
> >  ARIN's present practice has been to return to the IANA any significant
> >  address space which was voluntarily returned to ARIN (for examples,
> >  see the following writeup:
> >  <http://blog.icann.org/2008/02/recovering-ipv4-address-space/>)
> >  and until  a new ARIN policy is established, we will continue that
> >  practice.
>
> Excellent... and plaudits to ARIN for their selfless behaviour, modulo,
> of course, any definition of what constitutes "significant".
>
> Nigel would you not consider directly returning 4 entire /8s back to IANA
not significant?   Since there is no policy currently by which IANA can hand
out anything less than a /8 it seems that returning smaller blocks to IANA
so they can be stuck there might not be such a great idea?   How about a
global policy directing IANA how to hand out smaller blocks to the RIRs
might be in order?

That policy is here
http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-IPv4-rirs.html

*Allocation Principles*


   - The IANA will allocate IPv4 address space to the RIRs in /8 units.
   - The IANA will allocate sufficient IPv4 address space to the RIRs to
   support their registration needs for at least an 18 month period.
   - The IANA will allow for the RIRs to apply their own respective chosen
   allocation and reservation strategies in order to ensure the efficiency and
   efficacy of their work.


Thanks!
----Cathy
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