[arin-ppml] ARIN-2011-6: Returned IPv4 Addresses - Last Call

[Owen DeLong]

> That's where this gets messy. There is a pending ARIN-ratified global
> policy for IANA to allocate addresses. The feel is that the other
> regions won't ratify it, but they still could at pretty much any time.
> Also, the way the text is written, it could serve as the "exception
> that proves the rule." In other words, stating "no returns until X"
> implicitly means "returns as normal after X" for some external
> definition of normal. I'm personally uncomfortable with a policy that
> says "returns after X" without laying out exactly what we're willing
> to see returned after X.
> 
The ASO AC has abandoned work on that proposal, so, I'm not
sure whether the sudden ratification by the other registries would
have that effect or not. I believe once the policy is abandoned
by the ASO AC, it would require a 5-registry approval to revive it.

Owen

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