On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:09 +0200, Alex Le Heux wrote:
PDP Number: 2007-06 Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space
Dear Colleagues,
A new RIPE Policy has been proposed and is now available for discussion.
This policy describes the process for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 space from IANA to the RIRs. When a minimum amount of available space is reached, an identical number of IPv4 allocation units (/8s) will be allocated from IANA to each RIR, replacing the current IPv4 allocation policy.
The proposal claims to create "certainty on how the remaining space will be allocated". To me it seems the only advantage is to the RIRs with a slow burn-rate who may get space to allocate for 1-2 years longer than the big RIRs. It's not obvious that this makes it easier to predict the exact date of depletion -- for anyone. Nor does it anything to prevent a run on the remaining resources. How can/do you prevent registry-shopping in the period after the first RIRs run out of addresses? To avoid a run between the RIRs to get the last few /8s it might be an idea to hand out at least one /8 to each RIR in the last round. Alternatively one could define a last chunk of /8s to be split between the RIRs according to their burn-rate in the last months leading up to that point. Although impossible, I belive the best would be if all RIRs run out at the exact same time which is the opposite of what the suggested policy aim to achieve. //per