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

On Mar 21, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl>
 wrote:

> 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 ;-)

ARIN's Inter-RIR transfer policy can only happen to an RIR which shares a
"reciprocal, compatible,  needs-based policy". A voluntary mechanism does 
not equate to a "needs-based" policy, so we would have a conflict.  

As noted by others on this list, there is nothing fundamentally wrong about
such a conflict, other than the fact that it would mean additional discussion
in both regions about the value of alignment and options for getting there.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN