[address-policy-wg] 2016-03 New Version and Impact Analysis Published (Locking Down the Final /8 Policy)

Dear Peter,

> [from the impact assessmant]
> 
> Returned IPv4 addresses from LIRs and End Users and addresses received 
> from IANA's recovered pool are currently added to the RIPE NCC's 
> available IPv4 pool. >If this proposal is accepted, legacy resources 
> that have been handed over to the RIPE NCC will also be added to the 
> available pool. Currently, the RIPE NCC >holds a total of ten /24 IPv4 
> legacy resources.
> 
> With apologies for lack of research; under what policy was this space 
> "accepted"
> and not marked for return to IANA?

There is no policy to give us guidance on what to do with received 
legacy space. However, the RIPE NCC has previously taken the initiative 
and returned address space to IANA on two separate occasions:

22 May 2012
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-ncc-returns-legacy-address-space-to-iana

22 April 2014
https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/legacy-ipv4-address-space-returned-to-iana

More recently, we have kept this address space separate and have not 
added it to our available pool.

Kind regards

Andrew de la Haye
Chief Operations Officer
RIPE NCC