Re: [address-policy-wg] 2009-01 New Policy Proposal (Global Policy for the Allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries)

On 20/02/2009 13:42, Nigel Titley wrote:

When the IPv4 address space runs out, anything that we get back gets equitably shared amongst the RIRs

Nigel, Can I ask what the purpose of the policy is? Each RIR is going to have sufficient local demand for locally reclaimed ipv4 address blocks that it seems unlikely to me that reassigning all these reclaimed addresses back to IANA is going to have any real effect on availability for end-users. This is particularly the case if there is going to be an address trading market where allocations have a quantifiable monetary value. Nick