[arin-ppml] REVISED: Draft Policy ARIN-2012-8: Aligning 8.2 and 8.3 Transfer Policy

[Owen DeLong]

+1 -- I support Dave's suggested rewording.

Owen

On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:38 PM, David Farmer <farmer at umn.edu> wrote:

> On 11/19/12 13:48 , Chris Grundemann wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> ...
>>> 3. Suggest updating the minimum transfer size specification to reflect "Current ARIN minimum allocation or assignment policy as defined in section 4 or section 6 or the original assignment size, whichever is smaller." since over time we have seen changes in these minimums and I would prefer that the transfer policy automatically track other policy changes.
>> 
>> I believe that would effectively allow everyone to transfer v4/28s
>> today based on 4.10 - is this something the community wants to allow?
>> More feedback in this area would also be helpful.
> 
> No, I think Owen is mostly right, but I would change the order and simplify for additional clarity to;
> 
> "* The minimum transfer size is, the original allocation size or the current applicable minimum allocation size in current policy, whichever is smaller."
> 
> I believe that means you can transfer the original allocation size what ever it is and if you want to transfer something else it must conform to current policy, that means /28 within the range reserved in 4.10 and /24 for a small multihomed end user, or a /22 for a multihomed ISP, etc...
> 
> Put another way, if you are doing only a partial transfer then you can't break things up smaller than current policy allows, and if the current block is already smaller, than you can only transfer the whole block.
> 
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