Gentlefolk, I have inserted the text of the policy below for comments inline:
> Name: Hytham Zakaria EL Nakhal > Organisation: National Telecom Regulatory Authority, Egypt > Version: Draft > Date: 07 July 2007 > Status: Open for discussion > Authors: Roque Gagliano (ANTEL), Francisco Obispo (CENIT), Hytham EL > Nakhal (MCIT), Didier Allain Kla (ISOC Cote d'Ivoire) Thank you for your hard work all. > > Policy Affected: The current on-demand global policy for the > distribution of IPv4 address space to the Regional Internet Registry > (RIR) system. So this proposal will entirely replace this policy?: http://www.aso.icann.org/docs/aso-001-2.pdf > > Incentive: In order to assure the equal distribution of the IPv4 > address space across RIR regions, this policy proposal describes a > process for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 space from > IANA to the existing RIRs > > Policy Proposal Name: Global Policy for the Allocation of the > Remaining IPv4 Address Space. > > Proposal: > -------------- > > Policy Statement: > > This policy describes the process for the allocation of the remaining > IPv4 space from IANA to RIRs. When a minimum I would have said "certain number" not "minimum number", as I can't parse what "minimum" means here. amount of > available space is reached, an identical number of IPv4 allocation units (/8s) > will be allocated from IANA to each RIR, replacing the current IPv4 > allocation policy. > > In order to fulfill the requirements of this policy, at the time of its > adoption, an identical number of IPv4 allocation units (N) will be > reserved by IANA for each RIR. The number N is > defined as 5. The reserved units will no longer be part of the available > space at IANA pool. > Further to Hisham's follow up mail I think N should = 2, and not N=1. > The process for the allocation of the remaining IPv4 space is divided > in two consecutives phases: > > 1. Existing Policy Phase: > > During this phase IANA will continue allocating IPv4 addresses to the > RIRs using the existing allocation policy. This phase will continue > until a request for IPv4 address space from any RIR to IANA can not be > fulfilled with the remaining IPv4 space available in the IANA pool. I don't understand this. If LACNIC for instance requests a /8, and IANA doesn't have it left to give, then it's way too late for n=1 or 2, no? I think I've missed something ;-P In any case, I think it will be advantageous for the AfriNIC community to get N /8s, as it will certainly last us longer than the more established RIRs. Globally however I lean slightly more to the soft landing approach. -- Cheers, McTim $ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim _______________________________________________ rpd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd
