Randy - We'll likely put that out to the ARIN community for consultation at the point in time when becomes a potential issue. I expect we will have plenty of time before that needs to be considered at the present rate of allocation.
/John John Curran President and CEO ARIN On Oct 18, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > John, > > Can you tell us at what degree the bisection stops? i.e. does it keep going > until there are no spaces left, or will you leave some space in between each > one to leave some room for future needs for orgs that already have > allocations? > > > -Randy > > -- > | Randy Carpenter > | Vice President, IT Services > | Red Hat Certified Engineer > | First Network Group, Inc. > | (419)739-9240, x1 > ---- > > ----- Original Message ----- >> On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:18 PM, David Conrad wrote: >>> On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Jack Bates wrote: >>>> ARIN does reservations (unsure at what length, but at least down to >>>> /31). >>> >>> Do they still do that? Back when I was at IANA, one of the >>> justifications the RIRs gave for the /12s they received was that >>> they were going to be using the 'bisection' method of allocation >>> which removes the need for reservation. Last I heard, APNIC was >>> using the bisection method... >> >> ARIN is doing the same (the 'bisection' method) with our IPv6 >> management >> since January 2010: we refer to the "sparse allocation" approach and >> it >> was requested by the community during the ARIN/NANOG Dearborn meeting. >> >> FYI, >> /John >> >> John Curran >> President and CEO >> ARIN
