[AfriNIC-rpd] Last Call for Comments: Global Policy Proposal for the Allocation of IPv4 Blocks to Regional

[Scott Leibrand]

The idea is for IANA to redistribute addresses from RIRs with  
reclaimed addresses to RIRs who need more. Without a policy like this,  
there is no mechanism for redistributing anything smaller than a /8.  
However, there is a lot of concern about making local RIR policy as  
part of a global policy, so that debate is continuing, at least in  
ARIN and RIPE, and you may see a modified version come back to AfriNIC  
as a result.

The idea with the dates was to avoid conflict with end-of-year  
holidays, etc.

-Scott

On Jun 6, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Vincent,
>
> I have no comments on the Policy other than seek to understand some  
> of the rational behind it such as:
>
> 1) If the RIR are the ones that recover the v4 IPs, what is the  
> rational of declaring the same to IANA and then subsequently  
> applying to get them back?  What value is IANA adding - i seem not  
> to get it. Initially I assumed that IANA could be aggretating to get  
> economical sizes for subsequent reallocation but from the examples  
> given in the Policy that doesnt necessarily apply i.e. you surrender  
> a /24 and most likely get back a /24. Where the value here?
>
> 2) out of curiousity, what's magical about the March/Sept cycle, I  
> would have thought Jan/June is more conventional i.e. financial/ 
> operational calender.
>
> walu.
>
> --- On Tue, 6/2/09, Vincent Ngundi <vincent at kenic.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> From: Vincent Ngundi <vincent at kenic.or.ke>
>> Subject: [AfriNIC-rpd] Last Call for Comments: Global Policy  
>> Proposal for the Allocation of IPv4 Blocks to Regional
>> To: "AfriNIC RPD ML" <rpd at afrinic.net>
>> Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 10:08 AM
>>
>>
>> Last Call for Comments: Global Policy Proposal for
>> the Allocation of IPv4 Blocks to Regional
>>
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a reminder that the 15-day last call for comments
>> period for the above policy ends on Saturday the 6th of June
>> 2009.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Global Policy Proposal for the Allocation of IPv4
>> Blocks to Regional Internet Registries was approved during
>> the AfriNIC 10 Public Policy meeting held on the 21st of May
>> 2009.
>>
>>
>>
>> You can find the text of the policy proposal at:
>>
>> http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v4gb200903.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> You can find out more about the AfriNIC PDP at:
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>> http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-pdp200707.htm
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>>
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Vincent Ngundi
>>
>> Chair, AfriNIC PDP-MG
>>
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