[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Receives /20 from IANA's Recovered Pool

Dear colleagues,

On 1 September 2017, the RIPE NCC and other Regional Internet 
Registries (RIRs) were each allocated the equivalent of a /20 of IPv4 
address space from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The 
RIPE NCC received the following IPv4 address ranges:

160.20.214.0/23
160.20.248.0/23
160.238.60.0/23
160.238.96.0/22
192.145.224.0/22
204.48.32.0/23

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-680

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

Regards

Ingrid Wijte
Assistant Manager Registration Services and Policy Development
RIPE NCC