Hi everyone, Further to Emilio's e-mail (thanks Emilio), in order to encourage some more discussion about the policy proposal itself, I would like to give a little insight about the intentions of the proposal. The proposal is based on two main principles: 1) Repetition: at the beginning of the year IANA distributed the last five /8s available in one single go to each RIR. This was done according to the "Global Policy for Remaining IPv4 Address Space" (ripe-634 in the RIPE NCC service region). All the RIR communities agreed in the past to have this type of distribution, equally partitioned, in a specific special circumstance. (That special circumstance being the last IPv4 /8s available in the IANA pool.) We now have another special circumstance. The IANA pool has less than a /8 remaining, and in the foreseeable future the amount of address space in the pool will not be an exact known quantity as in the past. We know there will be small amounts returned, and that it will be fragmented. If it made sense for ripe-634, it makes sense now just to repeat something that worked. And a distribution that would happen only twice a year. 2) Simplicity: the total IANA pool divided by the number of the RIRs. A simple solution to handle a situation that nobody can efficiently predict. Everyone receives the same, no differences between RIRs. On behalf of my co-authors, I hope we can have more discussion about the proposal itself in the next three weeks. Best wishes, philip --