[address-policy-wg] 2015-04 New Policy Proposal (RIPE Resource Transfer Policies)

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:22:09PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>first of all, a large thank-you for handling this policy aggregation.  This
>will make things a lot easier for organisations to understand how RIPE
>transfer policy works.  Although policy reworking like this is completely
>thankless, it's important to do.

I support this statement. And thank you for diffing/summarising
this big document as well.

>"Resources are excluded from transfers when RIPE Policies mandate their
>return to the RIPE NCC.":  this is completely new text.  approve.

[...]

>all policies: "Resources are excluded from transfers when RIPE Policies
>mandate their return to the RIPE NCC".  Mmm.  I'd be careful about
>inserting something like this.  Can you explain the intention and the
>meaning of this clause?

Can't have it both ways ;p As for myself, I would like to see
some clarification on this myself.

>asn transfer policy: added "scarce resources ... cannot be transferred by
>the resource holder within 24 months".  I don't disagree with this, nor
>with the genericisation of this transfer restriction.

I do (disagree). IMO this should be a separate policy change, not
something to be hidden in a huge re-work. 

Generally I would prefer if this re-work would only aggregate the
transfer policies and any material changes, in particular,
restrictions, would be left to later proposals. It will also
speed the approval of the proposal if there were no potentially
contentious changes.

As it stands I'll have to, provisionally, declare opposition to
this proposal pending a more careful re-read to find any other
little landmines that may be hidden in there.

rgds,
Sascha Luck