[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 Review Period extended until 9 July 2008 (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 06:06:01AM +0200, Erics wrote:
> We have a clear policy that obligates LIRs to give back unused 
> address blocks to RIPE-NCC. 

Do we?  I have seen that claim a couple of times now, but I would 
like to see it backed by actual references.

The policy says that if the criteria for an allocation are no longer 
valid, the allocation is no longer valid - but that does not apply to 
blocks that are only partially used, while the original criteria ("we 
have customers, we plan to give them addresses") are still met.

A block might be filled to 90%, which means "all allocation criteria are
met", and if that block is big enough (like a DTAG /10), the remaining
10% are a fairly big number of addresses.

Gert Doering
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