[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Receives a /13 from IANA's Recovered IPv4 Pool

Dear colleagues,

Yesterday, on 2 March 2015, the RIPE NCC and other Regional Internet
Registries (RIRs) were each allocated a /13 of IPv4 address space from
the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The RIPE NCC received
the IPv4 address range 45.8.0.0/13 and we are currently adding this to
our available pool.

Following the exhaustion of IANA's free pool of IPv4 addresses in 2011,
when the RIRs received their final /8s, a global policy caused IANA to
create a recovered pool of leftover and returned IPv4 address blocks.
This policy was ratified by all five RIR communities in 2012 and stated
that IANA would begin making equal, periodic allocations from the
recovered pool when the first RIR reached a /9 of remaining addresses.
This point was reached by LACNIC, the RIR for Latin America and the
Caribbean on 20 May 2014, triggering the global policy and the first
post-exhaustion allocation from IANA.

You can read the global policy here:
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/policy/global-addressing/allocation-ipv4-post-exhaustion

With the current policy in place, the RIPE NCC will receive one-fifth of
any recovered addresses in the pool every six months (every March and
September). The RIPE NCC will continue to distribute these according to
the current last /8 policy, under which Local Internet Registries (LIRs)
may receive a one-time /22 allocation (1,024 addresses).

It is important that network operators continue to deploy IPv6 on their
networks to ensure the future growth of the Internet. More information
on IPv6 deployment can be found here:
www.ipv6actnow.com

Best regards

Ingrid Wijte
Registration Services Assistant Manager
RIPE NCC