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

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 14:51, Tore Anderson
<tore.anderson at redpill-linpro.com> wrote:

> The proposal says the following:  «The reclamation pool will initially
> contain any fragments that may be left over in IANA inventory».
>
> You didn't comment on it in your first reply, but if these fragments
> indeed are the unused space in the legacy /8s (I don't know what else
> they could be), the initial contents of the RP would be some 125.4M
> addresses, according to Geoff Huston's IPv4 Address Report
> (http://ipv4.potaroo.net/).  That's a sizable chunk...

It certainly is.

When this topic came up in our initial conversations, we asked an IANA
representative about fragments and were told that IANA did not
currently have any. My understanding is that this may be due to a deal
that was struck between the IANA and the NRO - but I do not have any
authoritative information on that at this time.

Geoff Huston's report states that: "At the time IANA reaches the last
5 /8s (the "IANA Exhaustion time" as defined by current address
allocation policies), these unassigned addresses in the legacy /8s are
then distributed evenly to the RIRs." I am not sure where this
information came from though, since this is not spelled out in the
"Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space" policy
(http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-remaining-ipv4-space.htm)
as far as I can discern.

And of course the IANA report
(http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml)
shows all of the "various/legacy" /8s as being administered by
individual RIRs, since it only has a /8 granularity.

So there is some confusion (on my part at least) as to where these
fragments currently reside and who has responsibility for them.
Perhaps if someone from IANA monitors this list they can chime in? If
not, I and the other authors will certainly be following up to iron
these fairly significant details out. I apologize for not having a
more complete answer.

> I don't really have any suggestions for alternative text for you, but
> I'd be happy to give you my feedback on any draft updates you might have.

Thanks!
~Chris

>
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