[address-policy-wg] 2009-01 New Policy Proposal (Global Policy for the Allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries)

Hi Heather,

A good set of questions but I'll just comment on your first one.

On 19/02/2009 1:26, "heather skanks" <heather.skanks at gmail.com> wrote:

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> It is not clear whether it is mandatory that RIR's proactively recover
> space, but it sounds as though it is mandatory that recovered space be
> turned over to IANA.  Is this a conflict?  Does this create a
> dis-incentive to recover space?
> 
> If address space is returned to an RIR, and they have an immediate
> need for that space, can they assign it?  or *must* they wait for the
> quarterly interval and return it to IANA?  IMO, they shouldn't be
> forced to return it if they have requests within their region that
> could be met by reassigning the recovered space.
 
I think that you are really asking whether the proposers intend to create a
redistributive system. I don't know whether that's the case and the
rationale section of the proposal is very brief and doesn't really give any
hints. However, the summary section includes the statement "The RIRs may,
according to their individual policies and procedures, recover IPv4 address
space."

I don't know if "may" should be defined in its BCP 14 sense but I don't
think it would normally be taken to mean that it is a requirement.

Regards,

Leo Vegoda