[address-policy-wg] 2010-02 New Policy Proposal (Allocations from the last /8)

Hi James,

James Blessing said the following on 13/04/10 23:54 :
> On 13/04/2010 13:55, Ingrid Wijte wrote:
>> PDP Number: 2010-02
> 
> Suggest Revised Text, just tweaking no real impact

Actually, your suggestions are pretty major changes to the policy
proposal. ;-)

> Allocations from the last /8
> 
> The distribution of the last /8 held by the RIPE NCC will be done as
> follows:
> 
> 1. Unforeseen circumstances pool
> 
> Once RIPE NCC recieves the final /8 from IANA, a /16 will be held in
> reserve for some future uses, as yet unforeseen.

In 2010-2, Alain and I proposed that once the RIPE NCC holds the
*equivalent* of a /8 or less of IPv4 address space, the policy would
apply. This is different from when RIPE NCC receives the final /8 from
IANA, as there may well be still be some IPv4 address space remaining in
other blocks.

> 2. Allocations for LIRs from the last /8
> 
> On application for IPv4 resources when the RIPE NCC the final /8 has
> been allocated by IANA to RIPE, LIRs will receive IPv4 addresses
> according to the following:
> 
> - LIRs may only receive one allocation from the final /8. The size of
> the allocation made under this policy will be no larger than a /22.
> Other space may be provided to the LIR should additional space outside
> of the final /8 be available at the point of the request.

We actually intended 2010-2 to apply to the remaining equivalent of a
/8, not the last /8 that RIPE NCC receives from IANA. (For example, this
could be two /11s from one /8 block, a /10 from another /8 block, and
one /9 from a third /8 block.) There would be no other IPv4 space left
at this stage.

> 3. Final Exhaustion
> 
> In the event that the unforeseen circumstances pool /16 remains unused
> in the time the final /8 covered by this policy has been distributed, a
> /15 will be returned to the main pool to be distributed as per clause 2.
> 
> Once this /15 has been used then the final /15 will also be returned to
> the pool s should an unforeseen usage have not been found.

I think you mean /16 here, right?

Thanks very much for your feedback!

philip
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