[address-policy-wg] 2014-02 New Policy Proposal (Allow IPv4 PI transfer)

A couple of observations, fwiw, and no, I'm not going to assess the role
of brokers :-)

In general, let me start with the statement that I support all ideas to
get rid of the different shapes and colours of address blocks. And that
actually includes Legacy, as they are simply PI, just a tad older...

How to deal with moving address space from a PI assignment to a different
party?

Well, I can see 2 *substantially* different scenarios:

1) the current holder of the address block doesn't need *all of it* any longer
   (and wants to get money from an interested party, but that's a side issue).

2) the current holder of the address block doesn't need *any* of the addresses
   any longer and wants to transfer the full block, in one chunk or in smaller
   pieces.


Nr. 1 is pretty easy, and possible already or really soon now: convert the
PI block to PA, thus become an LIR, and proceed according to the rules.


Nr. 2 is more tricky. First of all, there was a good reason, why the resource
was tightly bound to the requester. That background and assumption is also
part of the basis for the low annual fee of €50,- per resource.

Now, as soon as the original criteria are no longer in place, the resource
MUST be returned. A PI holder offering the *full block* to an interested party
(for money or for free) obviously matches that provision. The resource needs
to get returned to the pool.

So, why would we want to bend into this direction or that direction to create
a special case for Nr. 2 to circumvent the existing policy? Just because some
money is seen on the horizon?

Which gets me to the point of *not* supporting this proposal!

Wilfried.