[address-policy-wg] [policy-announce] 2012-02 New Draft Document and Impact Analysis Published (Policy for Inter-RIR Transfers of IPv4 Address Space)

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Emilio Madaio <emadaio at ripe.net> wrote:

> We encourage you to read the draft document text and send any comments
> to address-policy-wg at ripe.net before 18 March 2013.

Needs a _lot_ more discussion.


1) The impact analysis implies that this applies to RIPE LIRs getting
PA/legacy IP space from non-RIPE RIRs. As I understand the text, this
is not the case. The proposal merely deals with transfer of RIPE
PA/legacy IP space to non-RIPE LIRs.
IMO, this means that the wording in the PDP is unclear or that the
impact analysis is flawed. Either way, this is not desirable.


2) What are the requirements so that another RIR's policy is seen as
"compatible inter-RIR transfer policy"? Who defines this and where?


3) "Increases the supply of IPv4 addresses available to RIPE NCC LIRs"

Again, I can not see this in the wording of the PDP. If anything, this
decreases the available pool. I am not saying this is good or bad,
merely stating a fact.


4) "Maintains the integrity of RIPE's whois database and ensures they
are part of the approval and transfer process"

If transfers outside of RIPE are not allowed, surely the whois
database will remain correct. If it's not correct  and policies have
been circumvented in the process there are procedures to deal with
this.


I am not saying I agree or disagree with the apparent(?) intention
behind all this; I think we need to have a clear understanding of
what's actually proposed before we can argue about specifics.


-- 
Richard

PS: "of an RIR" is incorrect; it's "of a RIR"