[arin-ppml] 2011-1 not adopted Was:Re: Board Adopts Draft Policies

[Martin Hannigan]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:08 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:42 PM, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
>> Not adopted:
>> At this time the Board has not adopted 2011-1: Inter-RIR transfers. As
>> stated in the minutes, "The ARIN Board of Trustees takes the recommendation
>> of Draft Policy ARIN-2011-1: Inter-RIR Transfers formally under advisement
>> pending a final community discussion at the ARIN XXIX Public Policy Meeting
>
> Sudden outbreak of common sense.
>
>> in Vancouver, British Columbia. Furthermore, the Board of Trustees directs
>> the President immediately start implementation of this policy in parallel,
>> with final policy availability held until otherwise directed by the Board."
>> See the minutes for more information on this item.
>
> https://www.arin.net/about_us/bot/bot2011_1216.html section 4
>
> While I concur with the board's assessment that ARIN should prepare to
> implement a policy substantially similar to 2011-1, I submit that
> 2011-1 as written violates fundamental expectations of any fair and
> equitable industry self-regulation.
>
> 1. Draft policy 2011-1 intentionally provides addresses from ARIN to
> registrants outside the ARIN region according to NUMBER POLICY NOT
> DEVELOPED BY THE ARIN community. As discussed during the last-call
> debate, there is substantial reason to believe such policies can and
> in some cases will favor out-region and multinational registrants in a
> manner which reduces the local ARIN community's access to ARIN-managed
> addresses.
>
> 2. Draft policy 2011-1 neither contemplates nor requires reciprocal
> transfer policies in other regions which receive addresses from ARIN.
> This disadvantages members of the ARIN community who must compete with
> registrants in the other four regions for ARIN addresses even as the
> same ARIN REGISTRANTS ARE BARRED FROM COMPETING for addresses from
> those regions.
>


There's no reason why policy modifications can't be submitted between
now and Vancouver.

Best,

-M<