[policy-announce] 2015-04 Proposal Accepted (RIPE Resource Transfer Policies)

Dear colleagues,

Consensus has been reached on 2015-04, "RIPE Resource Transfer Policies".

This policy change created a single policy document with all relevant 
information on the transfer of Internet number resources, replacing text 
in several RIPE Policies.
The policy change also introduces a 24-month holding period for IPv4 
addresses and 16-bit ASNs after any change of holdership.

You can find the full proposal at:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-04

The new RIPE Document is ripe-682, "RIPE Resource Transfer Policies" and 
is available at:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-682

The following RIPE policies haven been updated as well and received a 
new document number:
ripe-679, "Autonomous System (AS) Number Assignment Policies"
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-679
ripe-680, "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE 
NCC Service Region"
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-680
ripe-681, "IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy"
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-681

The following RIPE policy has been marked as obsolete and replaced by 
ripe-682:
ripe-644, "Policy for Inter-RIR Transfers of Internet Resources"

We estimate that this proposal will take around three months to fully 
implement.

In order to ensure a correct and consistent handling of requests, the 
current procedures remain in place until the implementation is 
completed. This applies in particular to transfers of IPv4 and 16-bit ASNs.

Details of the implementation status are available at:
https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management/policy-implementation-status

We will send another announcement once the implementation is complete 
and the new procedures are in place.

Thank you to everyone who provided input.

Kind regards,
Marco Schmidt
Policy Development Officer
RIPE NCC