Hi Leo, what is that precise amount? And, how much of those almost 5 /10s have been recovered (received by) IANA in the past 12 months? cheers, elvis On 17/04/14 22:49, Leo Vegoda wrote:
Hi,
Dpto. Datos Television Costa Blanca wrote:
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Soon we will get address space of around /10 from IANAs returned pool
plus the reserved we already have.
I think I should clarify the policy and the contents of the pool because I don't want the RIPE or other communities to be surprised when the policy is implemented.
The policy (https://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/global-addressing/allocation-ipv4-...) requires us to split the contents of the pool into five equal parts and then round down to the nearest CIDR boundary. The pool (https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-recovered-address-space) currently has just short of five /10s, which means the size of the allocation units must be rounded down to /11 equivalents.
This is based on the current contents of the pool. If the pool size grew by a precise amount then the policy would support the /10 equivalent allocation unit that has been mentioned.
If that does not happen the contents of the pool are likely to be eked out in increasingly small allocations over a number of years.
Kind regards,
Leo Vegoda