Global Policy for  the allocation of the remaining  IPv4 address space
in the Regional Internet Registry system 

(Proposal)

Policy Statement:

This policy describes the process  for the allocation of the remaining
IPv4 space from  IANA to the RIRs. When a  minimum amount of available
space is reached,  an identical number of IPv4  allocation units (/8s)
will be  allocated from IANA to  each RIR, replacing  the current IPv4
allocation  policy.  

In order  to fulfill the requirements  of this policy, at  the time of
its adoption, an  identical number of IPv4 allocation  units (N units)
will be reserved by IANA for each  RIR. The number N is defined as: 5.
The reserved allocation units will  no longer be part of the available
space at IANA  pool.  The process for the  allocation of the remaining
IPv4 space is divided in two consecutives phases:

1. Existing Policy Phase:

During this phase IANA will  continue allocating IPv4 addresses to the
RIRs using  the existing allocation policy.  This  phase will continue
until a request for IPv4 address  space from any RIR to IANA cannot be
fulfilled with  the remaining IPv4  space available in the  IANA pool.

This will be the last IPv4 address space request that IANA will accept
from any  RIR. At  this point the  next phase  of the process  will be
activated.

2. Exhaustion Phase:

IANA will automatically allocate the reserved IPv4 allocation units to
each RIR  (N units to each one)  and respond to the  last request with
the remaining available allocation units at IANA pool (M units).

2.1. Size of the final IPv4 allocations:

During this phase IANA  will automatically allocate N allocation units
to each RIR from the reserved  space defined in this policy. IANA will
also allocate  M allocation units to  the RIR that  submitted the last
request for IPv4 addresses.

2.2. Allocation of the remaining IPv4 Address space:

After the completion  of the evaluation of the  final request for IPv4
addresses,  IANA  must:  

1.  Immediately  notify the  NRO about  the activation  of  the second
phase of  this policy.  

2. Proceed to  allocate M allocation  units to the RIR  that submitted
the last  request for  IPv4 address space.   

3. Proceed  to  allocate N  allocation  units  to  each RIR  from  the
reserved space.