[address-policy-wg] 2012-03 New Policy Proposal (Intra-RIR Transfer Policy Proposal)

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Jan Ingvoldstad <frettled at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Emilio Madaio <emadaio at ripe.net> wrote:
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>> Dear Colleagues
>>
>> A proposed change to RIPE Document ripe-530, "IPv4 Address Allocation
>> and Assignment Policy for the RIPE NCC Service Region", is now
>> available for discussion.
>>
>>
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>> You can find the full proposal at:
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>>    http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2012-03
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>
> If I understand the rationale correctly, the change essentially means that a
> LIR has more time to actually implement a use of a transferred block, than
> they have for a new block.
>
> I am a n00b at these matters, but I don't quite see why this is an important
> change, and why as much as 24 months is necessary.
>
> Could someone please try to enlighten me?

wild guess... you got 24months to sell it to someone else? :-)



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