Well if all we're discussing is "crumbs" then what's the point? Writing a policy to force regions to give back "crumbs"? I do feel that it's a good idea to enable IANA to have a mechanism to hand out the crumbs. Soon that's all that will be left. What's wrong with making the returning of the crumbs to IANA a regional decision and giving IANA the ability to hand them out to RIRs if it gets them? Just a thought. ----Cathy On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:37 AM, <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
Nigel would you not consider directly returning 4 entire /8s back to IANA not significant?
Hmmmm, 4 months supply? No, I don't think that is a significant amount. Sure, where there are low hanging fruit like that it makes sense to put in the effort and clean things up even if it is only 4 months supply.
But step back and look at the big picture, and even IANA's issue with smaller blocks, probably won't make much difference one way or another. In fact, you could consider that to be a nice cushion so that when everybody says the cupboard is bare, IANA can raise their hand and say "here are a few sweepings from the back corner that we could hand out if anyone can use a few crumbs".
--Michael Dillon