[address-policy-wg] 2011-03 New Policy Proposal (Post-depletion IPv4 address recycling)

Hi,

On 05/23/2011 05:49 PM, Janos Zsako wrote:
> I am afraid the text of ripe-509 is very clear:
> 
> "The following policies come into effect as soon as RIPE NCC is required
> to make
>  allocations from the final /8 it receives from the IANA.
>  From then on the distribution of IPv4 address space will only be done
> as follows:"

Then article name isn't clear. As it doesn't apply these days, it
doesn't matter, but in future this may confuse someone, as last /8 is
only one.

> I personally do not think it would be wise to allocate returned addresses
> in accordance with policies applicable before the last /8, if we already
> started to allocate from the last /8 (i.e. I do not think it would be wise
> to have two sets of policies, both live at the same time, one applicable to
> the last /8 and an other one to the returned address space).

>From database point of view, there will be two sets of policies on
single /8 - in future on all except 185.0.0.0/8 (the last one). One
"historic" (for allocations made before some not-yet-known date) and
some "current" for new allocations after that magic date - with real
influence to RIPE-510 (operational impact I mentioned already). Current
system is very clear in terms of each new /8 usage, proposed change will
introduce new uncertainty to other exising /8.

Daniel