Well if all we&#39;re discussing is &quot;crumbs&quot; then what&#39;s the point?  Writing a policy to force regions to give back &quot;crumbs&quot;?  <div><br></div><div>I do feel that it&#39;s a good idea to enable IANA to have a mechanism to hand out the crumbs.  Soon that&#39;s all that will be left.  </div>
<div><br></div><div>What&#39;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?  </div><div><br></div><div>Just a thought.</div>
<div>----Cathy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:37 AM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:michael.dillon@bt.com">michael.dillon@bt.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">&gt; Nigel would you not consider directly returning 4 entire /8s<br>
&gt; back to IANA not significant?<br>
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</div>Hmmmm, 4 months supply?<br>
No, I don&#39;t think that is a significant amount. Sure, where there<br>
are low hanging fruit like that it makes sense to put in the<br>
effort and clean things up even if it is only 4 months supply.<br>
<br>
But step back and look at the big picture, and even IANA&#39;s<br>
issue with smaller blocks, probably won&#39;t make much difference<br>
one way or another. In fact, you could consider that to be<br>
a nice cushion so that when everybody says the cupboard is<br>
bare, IANA can raise their hand and say &quot;here are a few sweepings<br>
from the back corner that we could hand out if anyone can use<br>
a few crumbs&quot;.<br>
<br>
--Michael Dillon<br>
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