[address-policy-wg] 2015-04 New Draft Documents and Impact Analysis Published (RIPE Resource Transfer Policies)

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl> wrote:

> Hello working group,
>
> > You can find the full proposal and the impact analysis at:
> > https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-04
>
> Thanks to Marco and the rest of the RIPE NCC for this extensive impact
> analysis.
>

+1, this impact analysis was also a pleasure to read for this n00b.


>
> This impact analysis uncovers a very serious issue that has slipped under
> our radar in the "Entities That Can Receive a Transfer". The issue raised
> from the RIPE NCC Executive Board looks completely legitimate to us.
>
> For those of you who haven't read the impact analysis yet, this is the
> core of the issue:
>
> > The RIPE NCC impact analysis notes that acceptance of this proposal
> could significantly affect the stability of the RIR system as a whole by
> allowing transfer of any resource (including assigned PA space) to any
> entity including one that is not a member of the RIPE NCC (or any other
> RIR).
>
> This is a serious issue that will affect all of us. The chairs take this
> issue into the consensus-reaching process and we ask the authors and
> working group to address this.
>
>
I didn't anticipate this issue, either, and I agree that the RIPE NCC's
concerns are valid and real.

Shouldn't this be a rather straightforward thing to fix in the proposal?

Or am I missing something here?

-- 
Jan
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