[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Draft Document Published (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

On 9 okt 2008, at 15:16, <michael.dillon at bt.com>  
<michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote:

> Because if the company is sleeping, then RIPE could reclaim
> the addresses. The basis of RIPE allocations is that the LIR
> demonstrates a technical need for the addresses. Note that ARIN
> is currently discussing how to handle review and reclamation
> procedures. I believe that it would be better for RIPE to
> reject all transfer policies and to focus our effort on
> review and reclamation policies.


As much as I like the idea of more scrutiny on resource holders and  
especially on those who are asking for more. I do think it will be  
hard to accomplish. We might get away with a tighter policy on new  
allocations, but you can't really change the rules after the game has  
been played, so reclaiming address blocks from current holders might  
get hard.

A more direct pointer to the arin proposal, or a short summary would  
be welcome (is it 2007-14 ?) as we could see if it can be adopted by  
us and we can draft a ripe proposal in the same directions.

I think in general, as we are getting close to the 'end of the world'  
it is a good thing to keep polices between RIR's largely the same to  
prevent organisations to go shopping between RIR's to find the one  
with the most relaxed ruleset.

Groet,

MarcoH