RE: [address-policy-wg] 2009-01, Global Policy for the allocation of IPv4 blocks to Regional Internet Registries

Note however that ARIN is the odd man out here. All the other RIRs have agreed on the original wording, so it may not be up to *us* to do anything.

Actually it is up to us to do something. Now that ARIN has approved a policy with substantially different wording, there is not going to be a global policy covering this. RIPE needs to decide if we are happy with separate regional policies, or if we are willing to adopt ARIN's wording in an attempt to reach a global policy. Of course, if there is not much desire to change anything, then de facto, ARIN's policy is regional and there will be no globally consistent policy. That is roughly how the NRO process works. --Michael Dillon