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

> You would do well to take some lessons in debate culture
> yourself. You're -not even too veiledly- accusing another member
> of abuse, something we have heard altogether too much of lately.

In my humble opinion I did not.  I admit that I may have cut it close,
though.  However, it is really difficult making an argument in this
discussion without mentioning the case of abuse against the intention
of the last /8 policy.

I think it's a pretty well established fact that the M&A loophole has
been used to ... perform actions with resources in the last /8 which
are counter to the intention of the last /8 policy.  For brevity I
label this as "abuse" or as "abuse against the intention of the last
/8 policy".

It should also be pretty obvious that the various IP brokers have a
business self-interest in maintaining the restriction-free M&A
loophole, perhaps even though they only gain business as facilitators
of the transfers resulting from the actions described.

> As for 2015-04, I oppose it as it tries yet again to bring M&A
> under policy regulation (s. 2.2) which the community has no
> business doing.

Please educate me why the community has no business doing this.
I would have thought that was well within scope for the address
policy.

Best regards,

- Håvard