[address-policy-wg] 2016-03 Discussion Period extended until 15 July 2016 (Locking Down the Final /8 Policy)

Dear Nick, Radu and colleagues,

Thank you for raising this question.

On 2016-06-16 17:28:51 CET, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> rather than speculating, maybe someone from the RIPE NCC could provide
> information on how much address space has been returned to the registry
> over the last couple of years?


The overall number that Radu calculated is almost correct. Around 4.5 million IPs have been returned since we reached the last /8 in September 2012.

Looking at LIRs only, around 1.66 million IPs have been returned by our members. This consists of around 1.6 million allocated addresses and 63,000 assigned addresses from 930 different LIRs. The majority of these returns came from the closure of LIR accounts.

After a quarantine period, returned address space is added to our available IPv4 pool and will be allocated according to the policy.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards

Marco Schmidt
Policy Development Officer
RIPE NCC

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