[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Receives /18 from IANA's Recovered Pool

Dear colleagues,

On 1 September 2016, the RIPE NCC and other Regional Internet Registries 
(RIRs) were each allocated the equivalent of a /18 of IPv4 address space 
from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The RIPE NCC 
received the following IPv4 address ranges: 160.20.96.0/21, 
160.20.144.0/20, 160.202.16.0/20, 160.238.112.0/20 and 162.12.200.0/21.

This returned address space will be added to the RIPE NCC’s free pool 
and distributed according to the current IPv4 policy. LIRs that have 
already received their final /22 are NOT eligible to receive any further 
allocations from the RIPE NCC. You can find the IPv4 policy here:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-649

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:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/allocation-ipv4-post-exhaustion-2012-05-08-en

It is important that network operators continue to deploy IPv6 on their 
networks to ensure the future growth of the Internet. The RIPE NCC's 
IPv6 Act Now website provides more information about IPv6 deployment:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/ipv6-info-centre

Andrea Cima
Registration Services Manager
RIPE NCC