[address-policy-wg] 2012-01 New Policy Proposal (Inter-RIR IPv4 Address Transfers)

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 12:16:10PM +0200, Chris wrote:
>On 04/03/2012 11:56 AM, Sascha Luck wrote:

>we seem to have diverging understandings of 'minimum' here...

there is nothing to understand. The minimum allocation to
a LIR is set by policy and was /21. 
Allocations out of the last /8 are /22.
(RIPE NCC service region, I don't know what other RIRs do)

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-530

I would assume that many (particularly smaller) LIRs are
not using all the allocated space.

>that's the current situation, and it's being done by ncc 
>(surprisingly where it makes sense ;).

I am not aware of the NCC reclaiming unused parts of any 
allocation. 

The policy allows for transfers of allocation blocks to 
other LIRs withing the NCC region. These blocks must be at 
least the size of a minimum allocation (/22 now, I guess).
  
I can't imagine much support for any policy that would 
allow for transfer of individual /24s (be it via the RIRs
or by trading them) because of the fragmentation / 
deaggregation caused.

As far as I am concerned, this proposal is just another 
crutch to keep ipv4 alive for that little bit longer, so,
while I don't really care about v4 anymore, I oppose it.

rgds,
Sascha Luck


>
>regards,
>
>	Chris
>