[121574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Jan 22 11:02:52 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:02:16 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4B59C13C.4090109@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In the absence of global policy on this matter, the RIRs and IANA
try to work together in the tradition of the Internet in order to=20
keep things running as smoothly as possible. This is a *feature*=20
not a bug.
If you want formal policy in this area, it's very easy to submit a=20
proposal for global number policy to each of the RIRs and that will=20
produce the desired result. One should be realistic about the time=20
requirements to produce uniform global policy; it looks to take about=20
12 to 18 months from policy initiation to global adoption at present.
/John
On Jan 22, 2010, at 10:16 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> 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.... :-(
>=20
> If you're assigning 2 at the same time, they should be adjacent.
>=20
> The dribbles here and there policy never was particularly satisfying,
> because it assumes that this was all temporary until the widespread
> deployment of IPv6.
>=20
