[address-policy-wg] 2013-03 New Draft Document and Impact Analysis Published (No Need - Post-Depletion Reality Adjustment and Clean up)

* Gert Doering

> (The /22 in the "last /8 policy" was chosen to ensure that every single
> LIR in existence today can get their /22, and we'll still have some left -
> the /8 will last for 16.000 /22s, and the number of active LIR is still
> below 9000 today)

It's last much longer, actually. Since depletion, the NCC has recovered
922,824 IPv4 addresses (outside of 185/8), and the NCC's one-fifth share
of the IANA Recovered IPv4 Pool currently numbers 3,820,953 addresses.
Put together, this gives us another 4,632 /22s to give to new LIRs.

When taking these not-185/8 (yet still covered by the last /8 policy)
pools into account, it is actually the case that the "last /8" pool has
seen a net *growth* since the NCC hit IPv4 depletion. :-)

Tore