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

On 10/09/2012 20:24, David Farmer wrote:
> So there are going to be dribs and drabs of IPv4 for a long time.

There will be dribs and drabs until the heat death of the universe.  This
will happen because there are garbage collection mechanisms built into the
policies of all the RIRs, and every time an organisation or person
disappears in such a way that there is no clear succession (e.g.
bankruptcy, death, etc), the address space will eventually make its way
back to IANA.

> 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.

This is part of the reason that this policy is important.  The quantities
are small in the scale of things, but the largest arguments are usually
about the smallest things.  We need policy clarity and some semblance of
fairness in how these resources should be divvied up in future.  Otherwise
it will be to the detriment of the RIPE community in future.

Nick