Hi franck, Whlle we could have a discussion it would be more capacity building than debate, as others have noted, the final allocations have been made. Afaik, apnic is still allocating and assigning ipv4. According to the global policies developed using the global pdp, each RIR was allocated one /8, when the IANA pool reached 5. How would you have divided up the pool? Why do you say "stuck"? Apnic has the most liberal IPv4 transfer policies in the world. In any case, there are several economies in asia that are leading in ipv6 adoption which has led to bleeding edge mobile internet deployments. Rgds, McTim On Jun 18, 2011 10:08 AM, "Franck Martin" <franck.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
Everyone talks about TLDs, etc... but IPs are also part of ICANN mandate.
What I notice is that, APNIC is not anymore handing over IPv4 to anyone. RIPE pool of IPv4 is slowly decreasing, but ARIN pool is barely decreasing.
It means that the AP region is stuck to move to IPv6 while NA region has no incentive.
Should there not be a better redistribution of the left over IPs over the RIR, to put all regions on same footing?
I feel there is a debate worth having at ALAC?