On Wednesday 11 August 2004 09:18, Randy Bush wrote:
It would make sense (to me anyway) that once xx% of a /12 is allocated then another /12 is issued to the RIR.
withholding judgement of the wisdom of a /12, and just using it as an example. it would seem sensible that the xx% be 100% less the expected burn rate for the time it takes to allocate a new block, plus some fudge. i.e. if iana can allocate in a week, then 90% would seem reasonable. if it takes the iana a year, then a much smaller percentile.
and before we start throwing stones at the iana, it would be interesting to actually know the mean and variance of queue times of the iana and the various rirs over the last decade. my personal experience would not suggest that anyone could be particularly proud.
randy
Those figures would probably be useful and would seem a sensible way of deciding the % which must be allocated before a new block was issued. Rather than a /12 perhaps it ought to be that the RIR's apply to iana for a block of /x size. With /x being expected to last the RIR iro 36 months. Jon