[121571] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Fri Jan 22 10:16:55 2010
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:16:12 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4B59B04C.7080706@foobar.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 22/01/2010 13:54, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>> Why not 36 & 37?
>
> Random selection to ensure that no RIR can accuse IANA of bias. See
> David's previous post:
>
> http://blog.icann.org/2009/09/selecting-which-8-to-allocate-to-an-rir/
>
Because relying on a blog post for policy really meets everybody's
definition of rationality.... :-(
If you're assigning 2 at the same time, they should be adjacent.
The dribbles here and there policy never was particularly satisfying,
because it assumes that this was all temporary until the widespread
deployment of IPv6.
