[address-policy-wg] IPv4 waiting list policy

Hi Denis,

ripe-725 has been published on 30 July 2019, following up on the 
acceptance of policy proposal 2019-02, "IPv4 Waiting List Implementation”,
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/2019-July/012987.html
and it has been implemented on 19 September 2019.
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/2019-September/013024.html
This version stated
- in section "5.1 Allocations made by the RIPE NCC to LIRs":
"Once an equivalent of a /22 can no longer be allocated, the RIPE NCC 
will start allocating IPv4 resources based on a first-come-first-serve 
waiting list. At that point in time the contents of section 5.1 of this 
policy document will be automatically replaced with the contents of 
section 5.1bis and section 5.1bis will be deleted from this policy 
document."
- in section "5.2 Unforeseen circumstances":
"A /16 will be held in reserve for some future uses, as yet unforeseen. 
. . . In the event that this /16 remains unused at the time the 
remaining addresses covered by this policy have been distributed, it 
returns to the pool to be distributed as per section 5.1, and this 
section is to be automatically deleted from the policy document."


ripe-730 has been published on 10 October 2019, following up on the 
acceptance of policy proposal 2019-05, "Revised IPv4 assignment policy 
for IXPs".
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/2019-October/013068.html


ripe-733 has been published on 25 November 2019, following up on the 
automatic updates stated in ripe-725 (see above), as a result of the 
depletion of the RIPE NCC free IPv4 pool.
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/2019-November/013114.html


Kind regards,
Angela

-- 
Angela Dall'Ara
RIPE NCC Policy Officer



On 15/12/2021 20:00, denis walker wrote:
> Hi Angela
>
> I have a question about policy ripe-725.
>
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 13:22, Angela Dall'Ara <adallara at ripe.net> wrote:
>>> Q. When was the waiting list implemented?
>>> Q. When was the allocation size dropped to /24?
>>>
>>> A. The waiting list was introduced and the IPv4 allocation size
>>> reduced from a /22 to /24 on 19 September 2019, as per ripe-725:
>>> https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-725#51bis
> Are you saying section 5.1bis of ripe-725 became active as section 5.1
> on 19 Sept 2019? This textual change in the policy did not take place
> in ripe-730, published on  20191010. But waited until ripe-733
> published on 20191125.
>
> cheers
> denis