[address-policy-wg] common sense and 2013-03

On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:48 AM, Tore Anderson <tore at fud.no> wrote:

> And with regards to the particular concern over an LIR without
> operational need attempting to corner the market by buying everything
> there is, I'd like to ask the WG to keep in mind that there is a 24
> month cooling off period for transfers which is retained by 2013-03:
> 
> «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.»

Tore -

  ARIN has similar provisions - "The source entity must not have received 
  a transfer, allocation, or assignment of IPv4 number resources from ARIN 
  for the 12 months prior to the approval of a transfer request."  This is
  an effective control presuming that there is a relatively fixed number
  of LIRs (i.e. parties that can receive address blocks)
 
  It should be noted that such provisions are more difficult to meaningfully
  maintain in the absence of any operational need, as one can simply create
  multiple new entities as fast as desired to receive blocks via transfer, an 
  approach which is much harder to do when the recipient needs to show an actual 
  operational network which survives a reasonable degree of due diligence.

  Again, the RIPE community should decide what policy is best for it based
  on overall consideration of all factors; my point above is not in favor or 
  opposition to the policy proposal but simply an observation that may not be 
  otherwise apparent.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN