[address-policy-wg] APNIC temporarily freezing v4 transfers to RIPE NCC?

On Mar 11, 2015, at 5:38 AM, Tore Anderson <tore at fud.no> wrote:
> ...
> In any case, ARIN staff has confirmed on multiple occasions now that 1)
> 2014-05 is compatible with ARIN's transfer policy, and even if it
> wasn't 2) that any policy adopted by a third-party RIR community cannot
> alter the compatibility state between the ARIN and APNIC policies. 

That is correct, specifically, we assess the compatibility of an RIR's
policies with our Inter-RIR transfer policy, and reassess if an RIR should 
change policies, i.e. RIPE adoption of policy text does not have any impact 
on ARIN transfers to/from APNIC.  

> Thus it seems very clear that there is absolutely no cause for concern;
> after the passage of 2014-05, all three RIRs in question will be
> compatible with the other two.

I believe that to be correct, although nothing precludes the community 
in any region from deciding that outcome does not meet their needs, and 
changing inter-RIR transfer policy in their region.  Such would be a
rather surprising development, but I have long since given up attempting
to predict the outcomes of the various RIR policy development processes... 

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN