IPv4 Soft Landing

Recovered-space quarantine and scope · Draft 2 replaces draft 1's fixed six-month quarantine with a twelve-month starting period that AFRINIC may reduce, including when available space falls below a /13 or for other operational reasons. It expressly includes returned or recovered addresses from any original pool. Phase irreversibility and the priority of Soft-Landing allocation rules remain. The longer starting period responds to the first assessment's cleanup concern; neither document proves that cleanup or redelegation occurred.

Release and replenishment of the reserved /12 · The second draft adds an express mechanism to release the final-/8 reserve and replenish it with recovered space from any available pool, including space still in quarantine. The earlier assessment asked how recovered space and the reserved /12 should enter the available pool. The second assessment describes bringing the reserve into use when an available-pool request cannot be satisfied. Those are proposal text and staff interpretation, not evidence that the reserve was actually released or that quarantined addresses were delegated.

Staff clarification and implementation work · The first assessment requests additional clarity about the recovery pool and recommends a longer initial quarantine. The second records no outstanding staff clarification requests and changes the procedures entry to introducing an automated cleanup and monitoring tool. Both retain a six-month implementation estimate. This records the assessment's changed position and planned work; it does not establish implementation completion or eliminate the need to distinguish the proposal's wording from staff's operating interpretation.

Version chronology and retained status context · The first draft's own history dates initial posting to 6 May 2026, despite the archived page's conflicting 2020 submission field. Draft 2's history dates its revision to 16 June 2026 and says it addresses the impact analysis. This comparison therefore runs from draft 1 to draft 2, regardless of when the archive was discovered. The later retained draft-2 capture used here says Last call; that is a capture-specific status, not proof of ratification or a replacement for subsequent status evidence. The eight-month utilisation and SAW periods already appear in draft 1 and are substantially retained in the more formal draft-2 wording.

Procedural status; unchanged proposal text · The later retained page reports consensus awaiting Board ratification, replacing last call. Both captures retain proposal version 2.0 and the operative policy wording is unchanged. This is a status update, not evidence of Board ratification or a new proposal version. The captures bound when the change was observed, not its precise decision date.

Policy ratification status · The page-level status changes from consensus awaiting Board ratification to ratified, with 25 September 2026 recorded as the AFRINIC Board ratification date. The remainder of the captured document is unchanged.