Dear Colleagues, 2009-01, "Global Policy for the allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries" is a global policy proposal. You may remember discussions on it started in all regions around the beginning of 2009. The full text of the proposal can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2009-01.html AfriNIC, APNIC and LACNIC have reached consensus on the proposal so far. In ARIN, however, a revised text, different to the one in submitted to the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP) and in other regions, was introduced by the ARIN Advisory Council (ARIN AC). Following community discussion at the ARIN Public Policy Meeting in April 2009, the ARIN AC was tasked with further editing the text. This situation was reported to the RIPE community at RIPE 58. The RIPE community's feedback at that time was that the ARIN version of the proposal should be considered. Today, the ARIN AC has submitted a revised text for discussion in the ARIN community. You can find the current ARIN version of the proposal at: https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2009_3.html For your convenience, the major differences between the original ARIN text, the new ARIN version and the current RIPE version have been summarised below. Kind regards, Filiz Yilmaz Policy Development Manager RIPE NCC -------------------------------------------- Old ARIN "A. Phase I" Each RIR through their respective chosen policies and strategies may recover IPv4 address space which is under their administration. At quarterly intervals, each RIR shall return to the IANA any legacy address space recovered, and may return to the IANA any non-legacy address space recovered, in aggregated blocks of /24 or larger, for inclusion in the recovered IPv4 pool. New ARIN "A. Phase I" Each RIR through their respective chosen policies and strategies may recover IPv4 address space which is under their administration and designate any such space for return to the IANA. Each RIR shall at quarterly intervals return any such designated address space to the IANA in aggregated blocks of /24 or larger, for inclusion in the recovered IPv4 pool. RIPE "3.1 Phase I" Each RIR through their respective chosen policies and strategies may recover IPv4 address space which is under their administration. Each RIR shall at quarterly intervals return any such recovered address space to the IANA in aggregated blocks of /24 or larger, for inclusion in the recovered IPv4 pool. --------------------------------------------