[address-policy-wg] About the /22 allocation limitation

Hi Leo,

what is that precise amount?

And, how much of those almost 5 /10s have been recovered (received by) 
IANA in the past 12 months?

cheers,
elvis

On 17/04/14 22:49, Leo Vegoda wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Dpto. Datos Television Costa Blanca wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Soon we will get address space of around /10 from IANAs returned pool
>
> > plus the reserved we already have.
>
> I think I should clarify the policy and the contents of the pool 
> because I don't want the RIPE or other communities to be surprised 
> when the policy is implemented.
>
> The policy 
> (https://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/global-addressing/allocation-ipv4-post-exhaustion) 
> requires us to split the contents of the pool into five equal parts 
> and then round down to the nearest CIDR boundary. The pool 
> (https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-recovered-address-space) 
> currently has just short of five /10s, which means the size of the 
> allocation units must be rounded down to /11 equivalents.
>
> This is based on the current contents of the pool. If the pool size 
> grew by a precise amount then the policy would support the /10 
> equivalent allocation unit that has been mentioned.
>
> If that does not happen the contents of the pool are likely to be eked 
> out in increasingly small allocations over a number of years.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Leo Vegoda
>

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