[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2015-2: Modify 8.4 (Inter-RIR Transfers to Specified Recipients)

[William Herrin]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:58 PM, ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:
> Draft Policy ARIN-2015-2
> Modify 8.4 (Inter-RIR Transfers to Specified Recipients)
>
> Problem Statement:
>
> Organizations that obtain a 24 month supply of IP addresses via the transfer
> market and then have an unexpected change in business plan are unable to
> move IP addresses to the proper RIR within the first 12 months of receipt.
>
> Policy statement:
>
> Replace 8.4, bullet 4, to read:
>
> "Source entities within the ARIN region must not have received an allocation
> or assignment of IPv4 number resources from ARIN for the 12 months prior to
> the approval of a transfer request."

Opposed.

BGP does not respect RIR boundaries. Barring pretty transparent fraud,
there is no _operational_ need to transfer addresses acquired in the
ARIN region to different registry within the 12-month waiting period.

Unexpected change in business plan? Who do you think you're fooling?

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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