[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal 2009-01

Hello,

Going forward with (1.) means that potentially recovered space within 
RIPE-land can end up in the hands of someone inside ARIN-land ???

Imho, those who wish not to contribute should not have access to the 
recovered resources. Solidarity (even if it's about a legacy resource...) 
sounds like a positive thing, however, if it's possible for 
non-contributors to benefit, another word comes to mind. And in that case 
i would be in favour of (3.) or (4.).


Regards,
Carlos


On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Nigel Titley wrote:

> Folks,
>
> As one of the authors of this proposal I'd like to get some sort of
> consensus together in the RIPE region so that we can move forward.
>
> All other regions have reached consensus and we are the last to do so.
>
> All other regions with the exception of Arin have adopted the policy in
> it's original form. Arin has modified the policy to remove the mandatory
> return of recovered address space to IANA, which effectively makes it a
> different policy. 2009-01 is a global policy which means that the same
> policy has to be agreed in all regions, so to all practical purposes it
> is doomed already. However, we still need to decide what to do with it
> in the RIPE region. To my mind there are four possibilities:
>
> 1. We adopt it in its original form thus demonstrating solidarity with
> the other regions, apart from Arin.
>
> 2. We adopt the Arin form of the proposal, thus demonstrating solidarity
> with Arin, but with no one else
>
> 3. We reject the proposal outright, thus demonstrating that we can't
> make up our minds or that we think it will never work, or something...
>
> 4. We ask the regional authors (in this case myself and Axel) to
> withdraw the proposal in this region.
>
> Some background may be helpful here. No one seriously expected that any
> address space would actually be returned as a result of this policy. It
> was intended as a statement that should IPv4 address space become
> available then it would be used for the greater good of all the
> registries rather than those who had already had the majority of the
> space already. I realise that this was a rather pious hope, but we felt
> that it was worth making a statement about.
>
> The Arin region's position has made it impossible to make this statement
> globally, but we still have the opportunity to make it here. I would
> like to solicit the opinions of this working group in order to try and
> put the matter to bed once and for all.
>
> I realise I'm making rather contentious statements here, but I'm hoping
> to provoke a bit of discussion. Please can the working group indicate
> how they would like to move this forward.
>
> All the best
>
> Nigel
>
>