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

Hi Filiz, community,

thanks for the alert and the summary of changes/differences!

As a non-native speaker I am looking for a clarification, please see below.

Filiz Yilmaz wrote:
> 
> 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.
[...]
> 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.

I read this as follows:

"Each RIR through their respective chosen policies and strategies may
recover IPv4 address space which is under their administration and
*may* designate any such space for return to the IANA."

A different interpretation would be:

"Each RIR through their respective chosen policies and strategies may
recover IPv4 address space which is under their administration and
*will* 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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> 
> 

Thanks,
Wilfried.