[address-policy-wg] [policy-announce] 2012-04 New Draft Document Published (PI Assignments from the last /8)

On 9/10/12 10:34 CDT, Sascha Luck wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:14:37PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
...
>> By rejecting this proposal, this discrimination against End User
>> requirements will be permanently enshrined in RIPE policy and that they
>> won't get the opportunity to apply for reclaimed address space in future.
>> Again, I find this to compound the implicit unfairness of excluding
>> them in
>> the first place.
>
> Possible compromise: make *returned/reclaimed* PI assignments available
> for assignment as PI rather than using them to make up patchwork PA
> allocations...

Note that besides addresses returned or reclaimed by RIPE there is the 
Recovered IPv4 Pool administered by the IANA, see the global policy 
[GPP-IPv4-2011, AKA RIPE-2011-01];

http://www.icann.org/en/news/in-focus/global-addressing/allocation-ipv4-post-exhaustion

And it has more than a /8 in it already;

https://www.arin.net/announcements/2012/20120611.html

So there are going to be dribs and drabs of IPv4 for a long time. (For 
those not familiar with the idiom "dribs and drabs", it means "small 
sporadic amounts.") There will not be enough to really make a 
fundamental difference, however there will definitely be more than 
enough for people to argue over, its human nature and is already 
happening.

As I don't represent any resources in the RIPE region, I will not 
express an opinion on the policy itself.  But I though it was import for 
people to realize there is more than a trivial amount of resources in 
the IANA Recovered IPv4 Pool even though it won't save the world from 
IPv4 exhaustion either.


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