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

Hi,

On 30 Aug 2010, at 2:22, Chris Grundemann wrote:

[...]

> 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.

Yes, the RIRs agreed a split for the old "Various Registries" space between themselves. They wrote to us about it in 2008 and a copy of the message and the breakdown is published on the ICANN web site:

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/wilson-to-conrad-28jan08-en.pdf

> 
> 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.

This is presumably an address management practice agreed by the NRO rather than a matter of policy.

Regards,

Leo Vegoda