... so it's hard to imagine how ICANN could influence future IPv4 allocation even if they unwisely attempted to do so.
http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/implementing-ipv4-post-04oct12-e...
When I read the code words in there, it's clear that the "policy" decisions are trivia like how to organize the list of blocks on the IANA web site, and the real policy is to give the RIRs what they ask for, perhaps with some minor technical adjustments so that RIRs get blocks adjacent to ones they already manage, and for which they're already handling rDNS. If IANA tried to tell the RIRs what to do with the returned blocks, there wouldn't be any more returned blocks. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly