[sig-policy] Fwd: [arin-ppml] Board Adopts Draft Policies
ARIN-2011-3: Better IPv6 Allocations for ISPs
ARIN-2011-4: Reserved Pool for Critical Infrastructure
ARIN-2011-6: Returned IPv4 Addresses
I'm raising this on the list to help promote discussion. I'm
particularly interested in ARIN-2011-6: Returned IPv4 Addresses
(https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2011_6.html) which says:
Policy statement:
4.1.9 Returned IPv4 Addresses
Until a global policy which clearly defines a mechanism for the
re-allocation of IPv4 addresses returned to the IANA is adopted by all
five regions and implemented at the IANA; all IPv4 addresses returned
to, recovered, or revoked by ARIN will be made available for
allocation or assignment in the ARIN region as quickly as practicable.
Rationale:
Adopting this proposal will result in the clarification of the status
of returned IPv4 addresses. IPv4 address resources should not sit idle
due to lack of policy clarity.
Timetable for implementation: Immediately
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This highlights some of the differences in the views of the different
RIRs about how the global policy for IPv4 re-allocation should work.
Until we can agree a global policy, ARIN will not be returning IPv4
resources to IANA for re-allocation. The global community is now on
the third attempt to reach a consensus on this and it's not clear that
this third version will be accepted.
So I'd encourage the APNIC community to consider is there anything we
can do to help here? I don't believe that each RIR has to adopt
exactly the same policies about allocation of IPv4 addresses in this
runout phase but if we can make acceptable compromises that allow a
global policy to be reached then that would be good.
andy