Re: [sig-policy] prop-086: Global policy for IPv4 allocations by the IAN

To: Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda at icann dot org>
Subject: Re: [sig-policy] prop-086: Global policy for IPv4 allocations by the IANA post exhaustion
From: Philip Smith <pfs at cisco dot com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:22:10 +1000
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Thanks for jumping in so quickly with your reply. :-)

Leo Vegoda said the following on 17/08/10 03:54 :
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> I can't speak for the authors but I can describe what we "have in stock" and what the ratified policies allows us to do. The only IPv4 address blocks we have with an UNALLOCATED status are whole /8s. Further, the current policy we implement only allows us to allocate /8s:
> 
>    " * The IANA will allocate IPv4 address space to the RIRs in /8 units."
>         -- http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-IPv4-rirs.html

Yes, I saw that, but so far I've been interpreting a /8 unit as address
space amounting to a /8, not a whole contiguous piece. Hmm, a unit is
not lots of little pieces, is it. :-( Perhaps it should have said
contiguous rather than unit. Oh well.

Nothing to do with the policy proposal, but what happens to the small
pieces you have left?

Do you/we need a policy proposal to allow IANA to allocate smaller
pieces to the RIRs?

Thanks!

philip
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