[address-policy-wg] 2013-03 New Policy Proposal (No Need - Post-Depletion Reality Adjustment and Cleanup)

Hi,

>> (ERX space handed out before the existance of the RIRs and then transferred
>> to the RIPE NCC as part of documentation cleanup does *not* fall under
>> RIPE address policy)
> 
> If this is the case, then why does
> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2012-02 say:
> 
> "Any LIR is allowed to re-allocate complete or partial blocks of IPv4
> address space that were previously allocated to them by either the
> RIPE NCC or the IANA."
> 
> ?

There are cases where organisations got early registration addresses from IANA, and then afterwards voluntarily registered those resources under their LIR, thereby allowing the RIPE NCC to apply RIPE policies to those resources. So the resources are never allocated by the RIPE NCC but still follow RIPE policy. The text you quote accommodates that.

Cheers,
Sander