[AFRINIC-rpd] AFRINIC Response to Government Calls for an Arab RIR

[SM]

At 04:56 26-02-2013, Babusha Radhakissoon wrote:
>RIRs are community-governed organisations. If the multi-stakeholder 
>Internet community in the Arab community feels that there is a need 
>to establish a new RIR both AFRINIC and RIPE will be happy to 
>support this development appropriately. There are steps, via the 
>open, bottom-up policy development process, to facilitate this. 
>ICP-2, "Criteria for Establishment of New Regional Internet 
>Registries", is a global policy, approved through consensus by the 
>communities from all the existing RIRs, which sets out this process:
>
>http://www.icann.org/en/news/in-focus/global-addressing/new-rirs-criteria

Could someone explain how the ICP-2 works?

Is there any relationship between the events and the consultation on 
"unused legacy IPv4 addresses"?

Regards,
-sm