[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2017-4: Remove Reciprocity Requirement for Inter-RIR Transfers
ARIN
info at arin.net
Mon Apr 10 16:39:04 EDT 2017
On 05 April 2017, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted
"ARIN-prop-236: Remove Reciprocity Requirement for Inter-RIR Transfers"
as a Draft Policy.
Draft Policy ARIN-2017-4 is below and can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2017_4.html
You are encouraged to discuss all Draft Policies on PPML. The AC will
evaluate the discussion in order to assess the conformance of this draft
policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet number resource policy as
stated in the Policy Development Process (PDP). Specifically, these
principles are:
* Enabling Fair and Impartial Number Resource Administration
* Technically Sound
* Supported by the Community
The PDP can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp.html
Draft Policies and Proposals under discussion can be found at:
https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/index.html
Regards,
Sean Hopkins
Policy Analyst
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
Draft Policy ARIN-2017-4: Remove Reciprocity Requirement for Inter-RIR
Transfers
Problem Statement:
AFRINIC and LACNIC are currently considering one-way inter-RIR transfer
proposals. Those RIR communities feel a one-way policy a policy that
allows network operators in their regions to obtain space from another
region and transfer it into AFRINIC and LACNIC may best meet the needs
of the operators in that region.
ARIN staff, in reply to an inquiry from AFRINIC, have formally indicated
that ARINs 8.4 policy language will not allow ARIN to participate in
such one-way transfers. The staff formally indicate to AFRINIC that the
word reciprocal in 8.4 prohibits ARIN from allowing ARIN-registered
space to transfer directly to AFRINIC (in this context).
ARIN as a community should recognize that other RIR operator communities
have different needs than we do. We should recognize that:
- network operators in AFRINIC in LACNIC have need to obtain space in
the market;
- have reasons they think are important to not allow two-way transfers; and
- we should understand that the history of the RIR system has led to
LACNIC and AFRINIC having multiple orders of magnitude less IPv4 address
space than ARIN does.
Policy statement:
Add the following sentence after the first sentence of NRPM 8.4:
Inter-regional transfers may take place to an RIR without a reciprocal
inter-regional transfer policy only when the recipient RIR has less IPv4
address space in its inventory than the global average of RIR IPv4
address inventories.
Timetable for implementation: Upon the ratification of any inter-RIR
transfer policy at another RIR that is one-way as described in the
problem statement.
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