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

* John Curran

> I will reiterate for avoidance of any doubt and to bring this back to
> the topic at hand: the RIPE community should feel free set any
> transfer policy that applies to resources in its region, but I'd
> recommend against developing policy based on a belief that ARIN
> policies don't apply to all resources in the ARIN region, as the
> outcome will not match expectations.

Hi John,

Let me reassure you that 2013-03 was not written with any particular
understanding of ARIN's "jurisdiction" in mind, one way or the other.
2013-03 doesn't really concern itself with extra-region matters.

The "legal" status of legacy space and how the RIRs should deal with it
is certainly an interesting topic, and not only in the ARIN region; such
a discussion is ongoing in the RIPE region too, cf. proposal 2012-07.
However, I consider that this topic is not really germane to the
discussion of 2013-03.

Fortunately, I have not seen anyone making arguments in favour of, or in
opposition to, 2013-03 based on an opinion of the status of legacy space
in the ARIN region. So I don't think we have anything to worry about in
this regard - the PDP can handle the discussion of a proposal
side-tracking into off-topic topics once in a while. After all, this is
a public mailing list, so I don't think we can expect anything else. :-)

Best regards,
-- 
Tore Anderson