On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN wrote:
Hello everybody,
Back at RIPE70 Elvis and me presented some ideas about revising the IPv4 allocation policy ( https://ripe70.ripe.net/presentations/93-Last-_8-allocation-size.pdf )
Before submitting the proposal we would like to have some community feedback on several aspects :
1. Separate pools or single pool a. have a "last /8 pool" which is 185.0.0.0/8 (strictly one /22 per LIR) and a "recovered space pool" containing all space received from IANA as "recovered and redistributed space" (for extra allocations) - APNIC-like separation of pools b. treat all addressing space available for allocation as a single pool
This is the only part I find - and always found - a bit strange. I guess it does probably not make a lot of differense in practice, anyone knows the actual size of the "recovered pool"? As the policy was written, once we hit the "last /8" stage there was no going back. Even if we for some reason would recover a lot more or start delegating E class or whaterver. I think it would be more logical to define the "last /8" as the actual last /8 (185/8). People sometimes ask us whether to return unused address space to the RIPE NCC and we always tell them not to because the free pool has become a black hole. But as/if the recovered pool is probably comparatively small, it is not a big issue. Cheers, Daniel _________________________________________________________________________________ Daniel Stolpe Tel: 08 - 688 11 81 stolpe@resilans.se Resilans AB Fax: 08 - 55 00 21 63 http://www.resilans.se/ Box 45 094 556741-1193 104 30 Stockholm