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

On Sat, 6 Feb 2016, Sascha Luck [ml] wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 08:55:45PM +0100, Erik Bais - A2B Internet wrote:
>> The policy proposal states :
>> 
>> >  2.2 Transfer Restrictions
>> 
>> >  Scarce resources, which are understood as those resources that
>> >  are allocated or assigned >by the RIPE NCC on a restricted
>> >  basis (such as IPv4 or 16-bit ASNs), cannot be >transferred
>> >  for 24 months from the date the resource was received by the
>> >  resource holder. >This restriction also applies if the
>> >  resource was received due to a change in the
>> >  organisation???s business (such as a merger or
>> >  acquisition).
>> 
>> 
>> Point 2.2 already states what is to be understood by scares
>> resources.  All RIPE NCC issued IPv4 and 16bit ASNs.
>
> In that case, there is a conflict between the proposal and the
> impact statement. 2.2 seems to suggest that the NCC unilaterally declares a
> resource "scarce" and the impact statement says the Community
> does that - presumably through policy.
> Why not re-word 2.2 to be the authoritative list of "scarce"
> resources and any additions/rmovals can be done via the PDP?

I agree with Sascha that if we go in this direction the therm "scarce" 
should be well defined in an authoritative way and also the proces for 
updating the list.

Cheers,

Daniel

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