[address-policy-wg] 2012-01 New Policy Proposal (Inter-RIR IPv4 Address Transfers)

Dear address-policy-wg, Ms. Brown,

At present, RIPE NCC keeps extensive notes of all resources and actors involved
in each direct assignment and allocation. This includes, for example, detailed
ticket histories and revisions of the WHOIS database. This provides RIPE NCC
with visibility into systemic abuse attempts of services it offers and enables
it to challenge such attempts.

Wouldn't 2012-01 without a uniform framework across all RIRs that includes
provisions for extensive information sharing eliminate this already weak
checkpoint by essentially making each RIR see half of each story? At the
extreme, it might even encourage the flow of resources from "better informed"
toward "less informed" RIRs, while potentially opening new loopholes and avenues
for abuse and resource hoarding - especially when it may have increasing
financial rewards.

--
Respectfully yours,

David Monosov


On 04/02/2012 03:39 PM, Marco Schmidt wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> A new RIPE Policy Proposal has been made and is now available for
> discussion.
> 
> You can find the full proposal at:
> 
>     http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2012-01/
> 
> We encourage you to review this proposal and send your comments to
> <address-policy-wg at ripe.net> before 30 April 2012.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marco Schmidt
> on behalf of the Policy Development Office
> RIPE NCC
> 
>