A proposal that would have established procedures for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority’s allocation of returned and remaining IPv4 blocks to regional internet registrars after the exhaustion of the free pool of IPv4/8 address blocks is no longer eligible to become a global policy, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced April 4.
As the supply of IPv4 blocks of internet protocol addresses declines, and as internet services begin their shift to new IPv6 protocols, questions have arisen about what will happen to unallocated IPv4 blocks.
Under the Global Policy Proposal for the Allocation of IPv4 by IANA ...
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