[address-policy-wg] 2013-05 New Policy Proposal (No Restrictions on End User Assignments in Intra-RIR Transfers)

On 16/08/2013 15:14, Gert Doering wrote:
> Dear AP WG,
>
> in the heated discussion about 2013-03 ("no need"), I think this proposal
> might have escaped your attention.
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:08:26PM +0200, Emilio Madaio wrote:
>> A proposed change to RIPE Policy Document ripe-592, "IPv4 Address
>> Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region",
>> is now available for discussion.
>>
>>
>> You can find the full proposal at:
>>
>>     https://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2013-05/
>
> This is an amendment to the transfer policy which solves real-world 
> problems for real-world LIRs - namely: abandon the requirement that a
> transferred block of addresses must be empty, because that conflicts
> with real-world scenarios, like a customer of a given LIR opening
> his own LIR later on, both parties agree to transfer the addresses
> the customer uses to the new LIR (= the customer's LIR of the customer
> using the addresses already), and the NCC then tells them "no, you 
> can't do that".
>
> The proposal is in *discussion* phase, so if you want to discuss, now is
> the time.  (If you just "+1" it, that's also a clear signal :-) ).
>
I think this is actually quite sensible, so +1

Nigel