[address-policy-wg] 2010-05 New Policy Proposal (Global Policy for IPv4 Allocation by the IANA post exhaustion)

* http://ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2010-05.html

> The reclamation pool will initially contain any fragments that may
> be left over in IANA inventory.

I assume these fragments are the so-called «VARIOUS» blocks?  These,
that is:  <http://bgp.potaroo.net/ipv4-stats/prefixes_various_pool.txt>?

> The Reclamation Pool will be divided on CIDR boundaries and
> distributed evenly to all eligible RIRs.
[...]
> [...] an RIR will become eligible to request address space from the IANA
> Reclamation Pool [...]

These two statements appear to me to contradict each other.  The first
seems to imply a push-based model, where the Reclamation Pool (RP) is
divided in five equally large chunks and dealt out to the RIRs at the
same time, in a manner very similar to the procedure in 2008-03.

The second seems to imply a pull model, much like how the IANA today
allocates /8s to the RIRs upon request.  (If so, how much can a RIR
allocate at a time?  18 months worth of consumption, like today?)

Which is it?

And if it is the latter, I fail to see how it will be distributed
«evenly».  It's unrealistic to assume that all RIRs will deplete at the
same time.  Isn't it then more likely that the first RIR(s) to deplete
their inventory (and thus activate the RP) will burn through all of the
RP long before the last RIR depletes its inventory and gets eligible for
making use of it?

Finally there's proposal 2010-02 ...  If that one is accepted as
currently prosposed, RIPE won't be eligible to receive anything from the
RP until there's 16384 LIRs in the region who have all received an IPv6
allocation and a /22 from the last IPv4 /8.  At that point, I'm not sure
if anybody really cares about what happens to the remaining IPv4 space,
especially as none of the 16384 LIRs that have already received their
/22 from the last /8 can come back for more anyway.

Should the space set aside for the implementation of 2010-02 (and
similar policies in the other regions) be disregarded when determining
when a RIR has exhausted its inventory?  That is, a timeline like the
following:

1) Receive last /8 from the IANA - set aside for 2010-02
2) Allocate/assign remaining inventory to LIRs according to ripe-492
3) Receive 1/5 (or: continuously allocate until no longer possible) from
the IANA RP.  Allocate/assign to LIRs according to ripe-492
4) Implement 2010-02 (using the /8 set aside in step #1)

Best regards,
-- 
Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
Tel: +47 21 54 41 27