[address-policy-wg] Global Policy for post exhaustion IPv4 allocation mechanisms by the IANA

On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 07:57:32PM +0100, Filiz Yilmaz wrote:

> 2.0 Allocation of returned IPv4 address space by the IANA
> 
> 1. Allocations from the IANA may begin once the pool is declared active.
> 2. In each "IPv4 allocation period", each RIR will receive a single ?IPv4 allocation unit? from the IANA.
> 3. An "IPv4 allocation period" is defined as a 6-month period following 1 March or 1 September in each year
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> While clause 1 seems to be pretty clear, it contains a "may" and clauses 2 and 3 together talk about "allocation periods" and that they are the ?6-month period following 1 March or 1 September in each year.? 
> 
> In practice, if the pool is declared active on 1 January and IANA makes the first allocations immediately this would be outside of the allocation period, which begins at the start of March.

or 1 September of the previous year, in this case.  My reading is that "IPv4 allocation period[s]" run regardless
of the status of the pool (active or not).
 
> So mainly the question is about the first allocations from the the Recovered IPv4 pool; 
> 
> a) Should they be made straight away 

At least they "may" (as per 1. above) start immediately.  Whether they ought to start immediately,
i.e., whether any and all RIRs can derive a right to allocation, is a differrent issue.  That
becomes more interesting if the state change occurs on 27 Feb rather than 1 Jan.

-Peter