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

Thanks, Scott, for the clarification!
Wilfried.

Scott Leibrand wrote:

> Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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."
>>   
> 
> 
> This is what I intended when writing it: "may" applies to both "recover"
> and "designate".
> 
> -Scott
> 
>> 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."
>>
>>
>>   
> 
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