[address-policy-wg] 2012-03 Discussion Period extended until 22 October 2012 (Intra-RIR transfer policy)

* David Farmer

> On 9/25/12 08:10 CDT, Tore Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Thank you again. Do you know whether or not there are any active efforts
>> in any of those regions to harmonise the periods (in other words change
>> it to 24 months in the APNIC region, or to 12 months in the ARIN region)?
> 
> APNIC-Prop-104 is under consideration at APNIC as we speak, and would
> move APNIC to 24-months.
> 
> http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-104
> 
> ARIN-2011-12 was implemented in February, please note that 36-months was
> also discussed during that process and another proposal ARIN-prop-176
> pushed from 60-months.  So, I don't believe ARIN returning to 12-months
> is a realistic expectation, personally I see ARIN either remaining at 24
> months or maybe going to 36 months if justified after additional
> experience with transfers.
> 
> https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2011_12.html
> http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2012-June/025352.html

Thank you for these pointers.

So the current ARIN period is no doubt 24 months, and the APNIC prop-104
page says its status is «reached consensus at APNIC 34». I guess this
means, then, that 24 months is the single best value to change the
"alloc-transfer-need-period" to in the RIPE region in order to best
harmonise our policy with the other regions, at least for now.

Ok, I'm sold. Harmony between the regions is a good ting. So, on the
condition that the new policy text is made clearer, support.

-- 
Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/