[address-policy-wg] 2013-03 New Policy Proposal (No Need - Post-Depletion Reality Adjustment and Cleanup)

Hi,

>> I also think that if adopted, this proposal would preclude an
>> inter-RIR transfer market in that the "needs test" is required in the
>> other regions, and that would mean that the RIPE region policies would
>> not be "compatible" as called for in the other regions transfer
>> policies.
>> 
>> In other words, does 2013-03 preclude 2012-02 (if adopted) from being effective?
> 
> Yes and no - it depends on the policy in effect in the other region
> space is being transferred to or from. I'm not intimately familiar with
> those, but I *believe* that ARIN would be incompatible

Voluntary evaluation of need? It would be a service from the NCC. Something like: you don't need to prove need for the NCC, but if you want advice/evaluation the NCC will assist you and perform the needs based analysis. The NCC has a lot of expertise in this area. Even when showing/documenting need is not required anymore that knowledge could benefit LIRs. It could be useful for new LIRs that need a bit of guidance when assigning addresses to customers.

And the NCC doing a "needs test" might make ARIN happy when doing transfers. (I just know that John will reply to this statement ;-)

Cheers,
Sander