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

Dear Colleagues,

2009-01, "Global Policy for the allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional  
Internet Registries" is a global policy proposal. You may remember  
discussions on it started in all regions around the beginning of 2009.  
The full text of the proposal can be found at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2009-01.html

AfriNIC, APNIC and LACNIC have reached consensus on the proposal so far.

In ARIN, however, a revised text, different to the one in submitted to  
the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP) and in other regions, was  
introduced by the ARIN Advisory Council (ARIN AC). Following community  
discussion at the ARIN Public Policy Meeting in April 2009, the ARIN  
AC was tasked with further editing the text. This situation was  
reported to the RIPE community at RIPE 58.

The RIPE community's feedback at that time was that the ARIN version  
of the proposal should be considered.

Today, the ARIN AC has submitted a revised text for discussion in the  
ARIN community. You can find the current ARIN version of the proposal  
at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2009_3.html

For your convenience, the major differences between the original ARIN  
text, the new ARIN version and the current RIPE version have been  
summarised below.

Kind regards,

Filiz Yilmaz
Policy Development Manager
RIPE NCC

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Old ARIN "A. Phase I"

Each RIR through their respective chosen policies and strategies may  
recover IPv4 address space which is under their administration. At  
quarterly intervals, each RIR shall return to the IANA any legacy  
address space recovered, and may return to the IANA any non-legacy  
address space recovered, in aggregated blocks of /24 or larger, for  
inclusion in the recovered IPv4 pool.

New ARIN "A. Phase I"

Each RIR through their respective chosen policies and strategies may  
recover IPv4 address space which is under their administration and  
designate any such space for return to the IANA. Each RIR shall at  
quarterly intervals return any such designated address space to the  
IANA in aggregated blocks of /24 or larger, for inclusion in the  
recovered IPv4 pool.

RIPE "3.1 Phase I"

Each RIR through their respective chosen policies and strategies may  
recover IPv4 address space which is under their administration. Each  
RIR shall at quarterly intervals return any such recovered address  
space to the IANA in aggregated blocks of /24 or larger, for inclusion  
in the recovered IPv4 pool.

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