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

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 03:31:21PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> 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.

Please read the policy proposal more thoroughly.  

The wording change to the existing policy only covers "to non-RIPE LIRs"
(indeed), but there's a whole new document, the "Inter-RIR transfer policy" 
- which covers to and from RIPE, starting after the block "[Following text 
will result in a new RIPE Policy Document ?Policy for Inter-RIR Transfers 
of IPv4 address space?, if the proposal reaches consensus.]"

(The wording change to the existing RIPE IPv4 policy document is needed to 
avoid a conflict between the new document and the existing policy)

Section 2.0 of that new document starts with: 

  "2.0 Transferring IPv4 address space to the RIPE NCC service region"

which I find very much to cover "to the RIPE NCC service region"...?


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

"We permit transfers to RIPE NCC, and transfers from the RIPE NCC,
when certain (locally defined) conditions are met" = compatible

"We do not permit transfers outside our region" = "incompatible"

Explained in more details in the new policy document...


> 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.

Please read the document more thoroughly.

Gert Doering
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