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
