[address-policy-wg] 2014-05 New Draft Document and Impact Analysis Published (Policy for Inter-RIR Transfers of Internet Resources)

On 15/10/14 09:10, Tore Anderson wrote:
> * Tore Anderson
>
>> I'm perplexed that the APNIC staff is uncertain whether or not 2014-05
>> is compatible with their policy. The way I read them, they unequivocally
>> are.
> 2) Assuming the previous point is handled, there is an additional
> concern that if 2014-05 passes, it will cause ARIN to declare that
> APNIC's policy is no longer compatible. It wasn't entirely clear to me
> if they though this would happen instantaneously (by ARIN-the-RIR, not
> the community), or if they were worried that the ARIN community would
> react by changing their policies to make them incompatible.
>
> - The instantaneous alternative does strike me as somewhat far fetched,
> considering that ARIN has already deemed APNIC's policy to be
> «reciprocal, compatible, needs-based», and the fact that 2014-05 doesn't
> change a single word in neither ARIN's nor APNIC's policy documents.
> That said, obviously I can't know for certain if 2014-04 could possibly
> cause such an instantaneous change in how ARIN interprets APNIC's policy
> text. Maybe John could chime in?
>
> - The other alternative, where 2014-05's passing would prompt the ARIN
> community to change their policy document so that APNIC<->ARIN transfers
> are no longer possible, does seems more plausible, yet somewhat
> speculative as we have no idea whether the ARIN community cares about
> 2014-05 at all and if so what they think about it.
>
> Another possibility, which was suggested by one commentator, is that the
> APNIC community preempts such an ARIN policy change, by changing their
> own policy instead (if they feel it is necessary in order to keep the
> ARIN community happy that is).
>
Just for information, at the recent ARIN meeting last week, John Curran 
stated that the adoption of 2014-05 would *not* impair the ability of 
LIRs to transfer address space from ARIN to APNIC and thence to RIPE NCC.

Nigel