[arin-ppml] Pre approvals for transfer-in-kind transactions

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
....
> On May 5, 2016, at 13:09 , Jason Schiller <jschiller at google.com> wrote:
>
> I would go s far as to direct ARIN staff to provide provisional approval.
> The process would look like this:
>
> Customer: ARIN, I have a /16.  I am currently using 200 IPs as documented
> below.
> I would be willing to sell my /16 and replace it with a /24 if I can be
> assured that I
> will be approved to get a /24.
>
> ARIN: based on your current utilization you are pre-approved to transfer a
> /24
> on the condition that no longer hold the /16 and your utilization as
> reported
> remains unchanged.

I think this might be a reasonably thing for ARIN to offer to its
member orgs where the resources (the /16 in this example)
are already under an appropriate RSA (so the association
with the resources has already been established).
[membership has its privileges?]

Allowing a random request off the street to utilize ARIN staff
resources for hypothetical future transfer evaluations, I am
not sure I would be in favor of.