David Conrad wrote:
Brian,
On May 30, 2008, at 5:23 AM, Brian Nisbet wrote:
If both policies were introduced then I can easily envisage a scenario where a bigger RIR uses up its /8, then starts to nibble away at the remaining addresses of those who will be slower to allocate their space, ie AfriNIC and LACNIC, thus defeating the purpose of fairness that I see inherent in 2008-03. The worse case scenario here, for the less developed RIRs at least, is that they may see very little of that last /8.
Suppose we fast forward to ~2011 and you've just been rejected by RIPE-NCC because they have no more address space to hand out whereas AfriNIC and LACNIC both have (at least) a full /8.
I'm curious: what do you think is going to happen?
I suspect that any answer I would give to such a question would be very non-standard due to the research and education space in which I work and given that our core network has been dual stacked for some years and we're doing everything we can to educate our clients and extend the v6 rollout as quickly as possible. So the scenario above is very unlikely to come to pass. In a different organisation the answer may well be "get addresses from anywhere we can" leading to situations under potential market conditions or an attempt to make oneself a legitimate customer of a different RIR, but both are ultimately exercises in holding back the tide for a little while. 2007-09 is much the same thing, in my eyes, while 2008-03 allows for a little more vision of when things are going to happen and possibly even a reduction of the inevitable panic. And considering some of the issues over PI space contracts and ERX addresses and the like that's going on right now, I dread to think what's going to happen if the space for which an organisation or LIR is contracting actually comes from that RIR over there via an RIR which is, in fact, a LIR. Brian.