transfer policy

Danny and All,
	Pre merger there is a quiet period where the two sides are not allowed to
share engineering information.   The transfer of space may be a high
priority to the company to show they are 'just one company now'.  A transfer
request may go in before all of the info below is known and certainly before
major engineering decisions are made about how to merge the two networks.
If we allow the transfer to happen day one with proof of merger, we give the
two companies more time to gather this info and they can interface with ARIN
the next time they need space.   I see no reason to take up engineering
resources on both sides twice in a period of less than three months.  This
makes life more difficult for all involved.  As a member of the ARIN
community I trust two ISP's with a history with ARIN to justify the space
from the merger at the next time they go in to request IP space for the now
primary maintainer ID.

	Simultaneously, while putting ISP to ISP transfers with history in a
different classification I would be in favor of dedicating the saved
resources on the ARIN side to looking at the other transfers closer to make
sure they are legitimate.

-Jason


-----Original Message-----
From: policy-request at arin.net [mailto:policy-request at arin.net]On Behalf
Of Danny McPherson
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 7:27 AM
To: policy at arin.net
Subject: Re: transfer policy




> Well, one reason we ask for utilization of the addresses is so that if
it's
> not being utilized efficiently (or at all which is true in some cases) we
> can ask for it to be returned or traded for a smaller block.  There have
> been quite a few cases where a /16 was transfered with a network
consisting
> of 300 hosts.  We always try to talk the organization into getting a
> smaller block but we don't have the authority right now to demand they do
so.

This certainly makes sense.

> It's also important that we know the organization that's receiving the
> addresses knows exactly what they have.  With all of the consolidation
> going on it's clear that a lot of organizations don't even know what
> they're buying.  They have no idea how addresses are being utilized in
some
> cases so by asking for utilization it helps everyone in the long run.

And this was my initial point.

-danny