2012-05-06 - Ratification of Global Policy Proposal From ASO for Post Exhaustion IPV4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA Function

ICANN on 16th November 2013 wrote to the ASO Address Council seeking guidance on the interpretation of the Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA, which was ratified in May 2012. This was in line with the ASO Address Council’s responsibility of "providing advice to the Board of ICANN on number resource allocation policy, in conjunction with the Regional Internet Registries," laid out in the ICANN/ASO MoU. The request specifically stated that according to the Global Policy, "Allocations from the IANA may begin once the pool is declared active." It is not clear whether this means that allocation from the Recovered IPv4 Pool should be made straight away or whether they should happen at the start of the next "IPv4 allocation period," the "6-month period following 1 March or 1 September." The ASO Address Council provided a formal response to the request for guidance from the ASO Address Council to ICANN on 14 April 2014, which was as follows: Advice: After consultations with the Internet number communities through the respective RIRs, the ASO Address Council has drawn rough community consensus and advises IANA to implement the Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA as follows: 1. Make the first allocation from the IANA recovered pool immediately after the pool is declared active. This first allocation should also be consistent with the rest of the policy. 2. Make all subsequent allocations consistent with the IPv4 allocation period specified in the policy text.