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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>IPv4 Soft Landing proposal is a very good regional proposal for ARIN region. But it's not a global policy. Each region can develop a similar proposal to stringent the allocation/assignment of IPv4 addresses to ISPs which could work hand in hand with the global policy for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space. I'm not sure if I understand it well, but I feel that ARIN with this proposal will save IPv4 addresses in IANA free pool for the use of other RIRs however it encourages the deployment of IPv6. I think I've to read it once more.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>Haitham</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>من:</B> rpd-bounces@afrinic.net بالنيابة عن McTim<BR><B>تاريخ الإرسال:</B> الاربعاء 10/3/2007 6:10 ص<BR><B>إلى:</B> AfriNIC Resource Policy Discussion List<BR><B>الموضوع:</B> Re: [AfriNIC-rpd] Value of N for Global Policy for the Allocation ofthe Remaining IPv4 Address Space<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<P dir=ltr><FONT size=2>On 10/2/07, Andrew Alston <aa@tenet.ac.za> wrote:<BR>> Hi All,<BR>><BR>> I've been having a brief look at the data on potaroo.net trying to figure<BR>> out in my mind what a sane value for N would be when considering the data<BR>> actually available with regards to current allocation trends.<BR>><BR>> I must admit, having looked at that data I'm probably even more uncertain<BR>> now than I was before, I do however believe that setting N to either 1 or 2<BR>> could cause problems for certain regions.<BR><BR>Absolutely, however the question in my mind is: Will adopting this policy<BR>(with any value of N) be LESS problematic than having no policy, or<BR>less problematic than Soft Landing.<BR><BR>><BR>> If I'm reading the data correctly, and if I'm not I'm open to correction,<BR>> the current allocation rates show that RIPE is allocating at a rate of<BR>> between 4 and 5 /8s per year, APNIC is sitting at between 4.5 and 5.5, ARIN<BR>> is sitting at between 1 and 2 per year, LACNIC seems to be sitting at<BR>> between 1 and 1.5 and AFRINIC is sitting between 0.3 and 0.35 per year.<BR>><BR>> Now, if N = 1 AFRINIC and LACNIC are relatively ok, we have some time to<BR>> play with to give people SOME time to adjust to the fact that there is now<BR>> probably a soft landing policy in place etc etc. APNIC and RIPE could have<BR>> as little as 2 months, maybe less (in June, RIPE NCC allocated 0.75 /8s), I<BR>> see this as being relatively problematic for them!<BR><BR>Agreed, but at least it's a guarantee of getting something to allocate/assign.<BR><BR>><BR>> Its kind of hard to model, because of how variable the allocation is, and<BR>> how much it fluctuates, but I'm leaning towards believing that if this<BR>> policy is to be sensible, it needs to allocate the remaining space such that<BR>> the biggest RIR has at least 6 months at time of implementation of policy.<BR>><BR>> Now, considering the growth in allocation rates of late, and due to the fact<BR>> that it is entirely possible that there is an explosion in demand once the<BR>> space depletes to these levels, I'd have to say that N should be at least 3,<BR>> if not 4.<BR>><BR>> I believe very strongly that when AfriNIC debates the value of N in this, we<BR>> need to be very very careful to take the global view into account on this,<BR>> we cannot debate this from the perspective of purely African merits,<BR><BR>Well, we can (we have?), but as it's a global policy proposal we<BR>SHOULD NOT. ARIN is about to take up this issue at their meeting very<BR>soon. I am guessing that they might reach consensus on "Soft<BR>Landing". To my reading of the ARIN mailing list, it seems they will<BR>reject the policy our community has reached consensus on.<BR><BR>So if one or 2 regions go for global policy "A" and others go for "B",<BR>what happens?<BR><BR>--<BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>McTim<BR>$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>rpd mailing list<BR>rpd@afrinic.net<BR><A href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd</A><BR></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>