RIPE NCC Returns Legacy Address Space to IANA

Dear colleagues,

On 6 May 2012, the ICANN Board ratified GPP-IPv4-2011, "Global Policy 
for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms" by IANA.

This global policy enables IANA to redistribute any recovered IPv4 
address space equally amongst the RIRs.

Following the ratification of this global policy, on 22 May 2012 the 
RIPE NCC returned to IANA the 1,368,576 legacy IPv4 addresses that have 
been returned to the RIPE NCC and plans to return any other legacy
IPv4 address space that is returned to the organisation in the future.

For more information about this, please see:
http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/announcements/returned-legacy-space

The ICANN Board Resolution is available at:
http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-06may12-en.htm

The full text of Global Policy GPP-IPv4-2011 is available at:
https://www.icann.org/en/news/in-focus/global-addressing/allocation-ipv4-post-exhaustion

Kind regards,

Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC