On 8 April 2005, during the ICANN Board meeting in Mar del Plata, Argentina, the ICANN Board formally approved the adoption of a global policy on IANA Allocation of IPv4 address space to the Regional Internet Registries developed by the Address Supporting Oganisation (ASO) and the Number Resource Organisation (NRO).
The Global Addressing Policy document is available from the ASO website at:
http://aso.icann.org/docs/aso-001-2.pdf
The ICANN Board resolution is available from the ICANN website at:
http://www.icann.org/minutes/resolutions-08apr05.htm
Axel Pawlik
Chair, NRO
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