[131078] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Oct 20 10:25:16 2010
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:25:08 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
In-Reply-To: <63DD1A65-E28E-46A7-AB2B-A76587F9D8A9@arin.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>> ARIN will follow global policy at that time and return it to the
>>> global free pool or distribute the space to those organizations in the
>>> ARIN region with documented need, as appropriate.
>>
>> i know the us has the world series, but global > arin region
>
> The problem is that we haven't been able to get a global policy
> for returned address space, i.e. IANA has no policy on how to
> assign less than full /8's. The first global policy 2009-3 did
> not reach consensus on the same text in all regions, and 2010-10
> is still under discussion.
>
> So, there's no way to know if there's a global policy which would
> allow the space to be returned to the IANA, but I'm optimistic...
ahh. my problem. lack of coffee. i missed the "OR." sorry.
i would guess iana would take it.
randy
