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
