Hi, On 05/23/2011 05:49 PM, Janos Zsako wrote:
I am afraid the text of ripe-509 is very clear:
"The following policies come into effect as soon as RIPE NCC is required to make allocations from the final /8 it receives from the IANA. From then on the distribution of IPv4 address space will only be done as follows:"
Then article name isn't clear. As it doesn't apply these days, it doesn't matter, but in future this may confuse someone, as last /8 is only one.
I personally do not think it would be wise to allocate returned addresses in accordance with policies applicable before the last /8, if we already started to allocate from the last /8 (i.e. I do not think it would be wise to have two sets of policies, both live at the same time, one applicable to the last /8 and an other one to the returned address space).
From database point of view, there will be two sets of policies on single /8 - in future on all except 185.0.0.0/8 (the last one). One "historic" (for allocations made before some not-yet-known date) and some "current" for new allocations after that magic date - with real influence to RIPE-510 (operational impact I mentioned already). Current system is very clear in terms of each new /8 usage, proposed change will introduce new uncertainty to other exising /8.
Daniel