[address-policy-wg] 2007-04 New Draft Document Published (IANA Policy for Allocation of ASN Blocks to RIRs)

Leo Vegoda wrote:
> Hi Niall,
> 
> On 20 Jun 2007, at 10:30am, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>     I'm surprised at the account given of the impact analysis.
>>     If it is really "not anticipate[d] that any significant
>>     impact will be caused if this proposal is implemented",
>>     I wonder what the motivation for the proposal can be.
>>
>>     I should have expected that it would not be difficult to
>>     identify some _advantageous_ impact, and that such impact
>>     should have been clearly reported.
> 
> I see a clear advantage in having all five RIR communities review a 
> proposal and agree a policy as there is no policy at the moment - just 
> precedent. I for one am very much in favour of having a consensus policy 
> to work to. Of course, this would be true of any global policy. This 
> particular policy proposal doesn't really change very much and that 
> could also be seen as an advantage by some, too. However, these points 
> are made in the proposal's "Rationale" section.
> 
> I suspect that Filiz limited her impact analysis to resource consumption 
> and service impact because these are quantifiable and should help the 
> community discuss the benefits and/or disadvantages of the proposal itself.

There's policy and there's operational procedures. I must admit that in 
this case I was of the view that while there is no substantive policy 
component here, there is merit in simply setting forth the operational 
procedures we use for IANA to RIR ASN block assignments as a documented 
procedure.

Geoff