[address-policy-wg] 2009-01, Global Policy for the allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries

Nigel Titley wrote:

> Scott Leibrand wrote:
> 
>> For clarity, ARIN has not yet approved 2009-3.  The ARIN AC has
>> revised it, and the revised version is going to be up for adoption
>> discussion at the Dearborn meeting.  If the community supports the
>> revised version, and the ARIN AC votes to adopt it, then the other
>> RIRs can decide whether they want to adopt that text as well.
>>
>> Without global consensus, this policy doesn't really do much for us. 
>> It is written as a Global Policy because it directs IANA how to
>> redistribute returned address space.  That portion of the policy has
>> to go through as a Global Policy, or not at all.
> 
> Exactly. And that part of the policy is still common. So even if ARIN
> changes the conditions under which they decide to return addresses to
> the pool for the common good, the policy can still go forward for
> adoption as a global policy.

Wearing my AC-hat for a moment,
and while I may not be supposed to have a formal point of view here,

I would be *very* uncomfortable to see a policy text being forwarded to
the Address Council's table for processing according to our rules, which
consists of some stuff which IS NOT to be considered part of a global
policy, and another section which IS to be regarded as a global policy.

OTOH, the NRO may be in a position to separate the parts and only forward
those that are common across all regions?

> Of course the other RIRs might decide that
> ARIN's stance changes their minds on whether to adopt this policy, but
> that is a different situation.
> 
> Nigel

Wilfried