Re: [address-policy-wg] 2015-05 Discussion Period extended until 13 May 2016 (Last /8 Allocation Criteria Revision)

[Hans Petter Holen]

On 16.04.2016 12.29, remco.vanm...@gmail.com wrote: This confusion has been haunting the final /8 policy from day one - it was never about what to do with specifically 185/8, but what to do with all future allocations from the moment we needed to start allocating out of it. The policy text itself was never limited to a single /8, nor was that limitation any part of the discussion.  I looked up the policy proposal at https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2010-02 " This proposal describes how the RIPE NCC should distribute IPv4 address space from the final /8 address block it receives from the IANA." Reading the rest of the proposal I fully understand the confusion and find it hard to read your interpretation into the proposal. The updated policy after this proposal can be found in RIPE 509 https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-509#----use-of-last----for-pa-allocations * The following policies come into effect as soon as RIPE NCC is required to make allocations from the final /8 it receives from the IANA. It does not discuss the event where RIPE NCC gets more address space and could allocate from - which would strictly speaking not be allocation from the last /8 Tracing the policy text trough the versions - This text was first removed between * RIPE 599 published on 20 December 2013 https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-599#Use-last-for-PA-Allocations and * RIPE 604 - published on 4 Feb 2014: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-604 Where the text was changed to: The size of the allocation made will be exactly one /22. The sum of all allocations made to a single LIR by the RIPE NCC after the 14th of September 2012 is limited to a maximum of 1024 IPv4 addresses (a single /22 or the equivalent thereof). and no reference to the last /8. So I can easily understand the confusion. -- Hans Petter Holen Mobile +47 45 06 60 54 | h...@oslo.net | http://hph.oslo.net