On May 30, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Raul Echeberria wrote:
Suppose we fast forward to ~2011 and you've just been rejected by RIPE- NCC because they have no more address space to hand out whereas AfriNIC and LACNIC both have (at least) a full /8.
I'm curious: what do you think is going to happen?
David:
I am curious about other situation. Suppose that IANA allocates the last 2 /8s to the RIR A and one day later IANA receives a request from the RIR B that is running out of IPv4 addresses while the RIR A has (at least) 2 /8s.
What do you think is going to happen?
My understanding of the current policy regime is that IANA only allocates unused addresses. With the allocation of the last /8, IANA would be out of the IPv4 business. As such, it would be up to the RIRs involved to negotiate some "fair" solution (if any). Regards, -drc