[ppml] Policy Proposal: IPv4 Transfer Policy Proposal

[Owen DeLong]

On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:36 PM, Leo Vegoda wrote:

> On 11/02/2008 17:35, "Member Services" <info at arin.net> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> 8.4.1    Conditions on the transferor:
>
> [...]
>
>>     * The transferor has not received any IPv4 allocations or
>>       assignments from ARIN (through ordinary allocations or
>>       assignments, or through this Simple Transfer policy) within the
>>       preceding 24 months.
>>     * The transferor may not request any IPv4 allocations or  
>> assignments
>>       from ARIN (through ordinary allocations or assignments, or  
>> through
>>       this Simple Transfer policy) within the subsequent 24 months.
>
> The current policy allows some subscriber members to receive IPv4  
> space to
> meet their needs for six months.
>
>   4.2.4.4. Six months
>
>   After a subscriber has been a member of ARIN for one year
>   they may choose to request a six-month supply of IP addresses.
>
> Can the proposers explain why the proposal would not allow transfers  
> away
> from subscribers until 24 months after receiving their last  
> allocation? The
> difference between the two periods is considerable and I am not sure  
> why the
> proposers chose 24 months rather than 12, 36 or some other number of  
> months.
>
We put a stake in the ground at a relatively random point.  It is  
believed that
likely 4.2.4.4 will soon be revised to reflect 12 months, and, I  
suspect not unlikely
that the proposed transfer policy will receive a similar revision.

Owen