Hi Filiz, community, thanks for the alert and the summary of changes/differences! As a non-native speaker I am looking for a clarification, please see below. Filiz Yilmaz wrote:
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.
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Filiz Yilmaz Policy Development Manager RIPE NCC
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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.
I read this as follows: "Each RIR through their respective chosen policies and strategies may recover IPv4 address space which is under their administration and *may* designate any such space for return to the IANA." A different interpretation would be: "Each RIR through their respective chosen policies and strategies may recover IPv4 address space which is under their administration and *will* 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.
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Thanks, Wilfried.