Andrew, Well done! (others might disagree) ps: Maybe someone needs to kickstart a new policy proposal about this. Regards, Carlos Friaças On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Andrew de la Haye wrote:

Dear Peter,

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[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...

22 April 2014 https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/legacy-ipv4-address-spa...

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