[address-policy-wg] declining 2012-01

hi!

On 04/12/2012 02:47 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
> It's not overly important whether we paint IP addresses red or blue, as
> long as we agree what can be done with blocks of those.  So I agree

true.
- ips cannot be owned
- allocations are valid as long as the prerequisites are true, otherwise they are subject to be reevaluated and adapted.

it seems like today there's need for this to be put into another special paragraph in the policy.

while i tend not to accept a priori declaration of arguments as off-limits in a discussion, i think distribution (which includes transfers) of ips according to need is the natural primacy of *IRs.
then again, i don't see that or why this is currently not possible for rirs. in case of a block of ips that is not needed by a rir, i'd assume that a transfer to another rir asking for space because it is needed there wouldn't be a problem irl. while i'm convinced this would currently be done in a sensible way anyway, formalizing this probably wouldn't hurt, too.
the major issue here according to the goals of ip administration is certainly aggregation. currently the blocks allocated to rirs are /8 i believe... inter-rir, aggregation should certainly be observed closely, so a reasonable size for blocks to be transfered from one rir with such spare blocks to another rir in need of such a block should be chosen (like, /16?).

regards,

	Chris