On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 07:57:32PM +0100, Filiz Yilmaz wrote:
2.0 Allocation of returned IPv4 address space by the IANA
1. Allocations from the IANA may begin once the pool is declared active. 2. In each "IPv4 allocation period", each RIR will receive a single ?IPv4 allocation unit? from the IANA. 3. An "IPv4 allocation period" is defined as a 6-month period following 1 March or 1 September in each year
... ----
While clause 1 seems to be pretty clear, it contains a "may" and clauses 2 and 3 together talk about "allocation periods" and that they are the ?6-month period following 1 March or 1 September in each year.?
In practice, if the pool is declared active on 1 January and IANA makes the first allocations immediately this would be outside of the allocation period, which begins at the start of March.
or 1 September of the previous year, in this case. My reading is that "IPv4 allocation period[s]" run regardless of the status of the pool (active or not).
So mainly the question is about the first allocations from the the Recovered IPv4 pool;
a) Should they be made straight away
At least they "may" (as per 1. above) start immediately. Whether they ought to start immediately, i.e., whether any and all RIRs can derive a right to allocation, is a differrent issue. That becomes more interesting if the state change occurs on 27 Feb rather than 1 Jan. -Peter