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

On Apr 15, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Nigel Titley wrote:
> 
> And this policy is going to be completely ineffective once IANA has less
> than a /8 in store... which is next year, remember. One of the goals of
> 2009-01 was to provide a means for IANA to accept and allocate smaller
> than /8s.

The policy remains effective even after IANA has less than a /8 in store,
as any subsequent returned address space will still be subject to it.  
Since address space can be returned for numerous reasons, the policy 
will almost certainly see some use if adopted.

> But I re-iterate. I'm only trying to sort out the washup of 2009-01. It
> isn't ever likely to be a global policy now.

In the absence of such a policy, there is no incentive at all to return 
resources to the IANA, as they lack a policy to reissue them (in the case 
of smaller blocks) or will issue them entirely to one RIR (in the case of 
a /8) which is to the detriment of all other regions.  While having the 
address return be designated by the RIR may not be ideal, at least in the
ARIN region that is considered a far better outcome than the non-functional
IANA that we're presently heading towards.

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN