Re: [ga] FW: Global Policy Proposal for Remaining IPv4 Address Space -Background Report - Updated 8 September 2008

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glen and all,

  In respect to the in process discussion on the relevant IETF/RIPE
WG's discussing this policy, little consideration has been given to
reclamation of non-used IPv4 address space, which is significant,
and recognized as such.  This points to a lack of proper management
of IPv4 address space going back years, if not more than a decade.

  In reality there is not the shortage of IPv4 space that is being
stated, but that such is being used to engender migration to IPv6
which as many already know is not going well and represents
some significant challenges, not the least of which is financial
in nature, and given such, in a global environment of financial
crisis on a global scale, it would seem that a renewed effort
to recover the still unused IPv4 address space for re-allocation
would be a more financially as well as operationally viable
thing to do.  Of course, and naturally this would require ICANN
staff to become directly involved in serious negotiations with
large IP address holders to relinquish their unused blocks, which
would be difficult negotiations in some, if not most instances.  Yet
I fully recognize that ICANN's staff's negotiation skills are very
limited as history has shown in other areas, it is in ICANN's best
interest, as well as the Internet communities, for them to either
proceed, find other gamefull employment in a totally different area
of endeavor, post haste.

Glen de Saint Géry wrote:

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> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/proposal-ipv4-report-29nov07.htm
> Global Policy Proposal for Remaining IPv4 Address Space - Background Report - 
> Updated 8 September 2008
>
> 29 November 2007
> (Updated 10 January 2008)
> (Updated 5 March 2008)
> (Updated 11 July 2008)
> (Updated 8 September 2008)
> (Updated 2 December 2008)
>
> Introduction
>
> Global Internet Number Resource Policies are defined by the ASO MOU - between 
> ICANN and the NRO - as "Internet number resource policies that have the 
> agreement of all RIRs according to their policy development processes and 
> ICANN, and require specific actions or outcomes on the part of IANA or any 
> other external ICANN-related body in order to be implemented". Attachment A 
> of this MOU describes the Development Process of Global Internet Number 
> Resource Policies, including the adoption by every RIR of a global policy to 
> be forwarded to the ICANN Board by the ASO, as well as its ratification by 
> the ICANN Board. In this context, the ICANN Board adopted its own Procedures 
> for the Review of Internet Number Resource Policies Forwarded by the ASO for 
> Ratification.
>
> Among other features, these Procedures state that the Board will decide, as 
> and when appropriate, that ICANN staff should follow the development of a 
> particular global policy, undertaking an "early awareness" tracking of 
> proposals in the addressing community. To this end, staff should issue 
> background reports periodically, forwarded to the Board, to all ICANN 
> Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees and posted at the ICANN Web 
> site.
>
> At its meeting on 20 November 2007, the Board resolved to request tracking of 
> the development of a global policy proposal for allocation of remaining IPv4 
> address space, under discussion in the Regional Internet Registries. The 
> status overview presented below is compiled in response to this request and 
> will be further updated as developments proceed, for information to ICANN 
> entities and the wider community. This is the fifth issue of the tracking of 
> this policy.
>
> Status Overview
>
> Originally, two slightly different global policy proposals were introduced 
> for allocation of the remaining IPv4 address space:
>
> A version (1) "Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address 
> Space", first presented at LACNIC X in May 2007
> A version (2) "End Policy for IANA IPv4 allocations to RIRs", first presented 
> at APNIC 24 in September 2007
> Both featured the same approach, distribution of an equal number N of /8 IPv4 
> address blocks to each RIR when the IANA free pool would reach the threshold 
> value of 5xN, but differed in the proposed value of N, notably 2 or 1, 
> respectively. The proposals were discussed in parallel in the RIRs and 
> regarded essentially as one proposal, with a view to converging on a value 
> for N. In February 2008, agreement was reached for a unified proposal (3). 
> The current proposal is thus:
>
> Version (3) "Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address 
> Space", first presented at APNIC 25 in February 2008
> The proposal was introduced at the subsequent meetings of all other RIRs. It 
> has now been adopted in ARIN, AfriNIC, LACNIC, RIPE and APNIC. The proposal 
> will next be handled by the NRO EC and the ASO AC according to their 
> procedures before being submitted to the ICANN Board for ratification. The 
> table below outlines the steps taken within each RIR for the current 
> proposal. Hyperlinks are included for easy access. An additional table shows 
> the history of previous proposals.
>
> It should be noted that other policy proposals have been put forward and are 
> being discussed regarding IPv4 address space exhaustion, although only those 
> mentioned above have been scoped as global policy proposals in the sense of 
> the ASO MoU, i.e. focusing on address allocation from IANA to the RIRs, and 
> recognized by the ASO AC as global policy proposals in that meaning.
>
> Status of current proposal (3) - for previous proposal history see separate 
> table
> (Please open the link directly to view the table)
> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/proposal-ipv4-report-29nov07.htm
>
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat
> gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://gnso.icann.org

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