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

* Sander Steffann

> I think a realistic approach could also be to add: 'organisations
> that transfer IPv4 addresses to other organisations thereby show that
> they have no need of additional address space for 12 months. When
> asking the NCC for an evaluation of need the NCC will give a negative
> answer during this period'
> 
> In other words: if you sell address space you obviously don't need
> it.
> 
> If this WG wants 2013-03 and transfers from ARIN are the only
> argument against 2013-03 then it might be a solution to add this bit
> of (IMHO) common sense for those who want to transfer addresses from
> the ARIN region.

FWIW, the proposed policy contains the following (carried over from
current policy):

«LIRs that receive a re-allocation from another LIR cannot re-allocate
complete or partial blocks of the same address space to another LIR
within 24 months of receiving the re-allocation.»

I believe that in practice, this will mean most, if not all, LIRs that
obtain address space through transfers will have an operational need for
the space. My reasoning for that is that if they don't intend to use the
addresses themselves, why would they go through the trouble to actually
obtain them, if they are going to be stuck with them for a long time?
After all, businesses are loath to spend money on stuff that's useless
for them.

That said, I doubt that this resolves the ARIN incompatibility.

Tore