[arin-ppml] Draft Policy 2017-6: Improve Reciprocity Requirements for Inter RIR Transfers

[Scott Leibrand]

Agreed: this proposal is a very bad idea for many reasons, and I would
encourage the AC to abandon it prior to the next public policy meeting.

If you're reading this message on PPML, feel like this policy is generally
a bad idea, but haven't commented on it yet: please do. The AC needs to
hear clearly from the community that a draft policy is a bad idea, either
from PPML or from a public policy meeting, before they'll generally feel
comfortable abandoning a draft policy for lack of community support.  In
the absence of such clarity on PPML, this would likely go to the PPM as a
draft policy for discussion there, which would be a waste of everyone's
time IMO.

-Scott

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:56 AM, David Farmer <farmer at umn.edu> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Aug 18, 2017, at 05:14 , David Huberman <daveid at panix.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I am a US-based company and I operate a network on multiple continents.
>> >
>> > I need to be able to move space from my home RIR of ARIN to other
>> regions as I expand my network overseas.
>> >
>> > The current policy that has been in effect for many years allows me to
>> operate my network properly -- using ARIN blocks in ARIN, APNIC blocks in
>> APNIC, and RIPE blocks in RIPE.  The policy is predictable and I can plan
>> network growth around it.
>> >
>> > If this proposal passes, it will shut off transfers between ARIN and
>> APNIC. This will hurt my business's finances.  We purchased addresses in
>> the ARIN region wth the intention of moving them to APNIC in the future. We
>> did so because the size blocks we needed were not available in the APNIC
>> region. So now we are talking about hurting my business for ... what
>> reason? How do network operations benefit from this proposal?
>>
>> Currently, there are certain registries that are operating like roach
>> motels for IP addresses. KR-NIC, CN-NIC are examples.
>>
>
> There is no evidence that this presents anything more than a theoretical
> problem, in fact I went and looked at APNICs transfer logs;
>
> https://www.apnic.net/manage-ip/manage-resources/transfer-
> resources/transfer-logs/
> or
> http://ftp.apnic.net/transfers/apnic/
>
> I found out of 281 transfers from ARIN to APNIC, there were 2 to KR and 15
> to CN, and the 2 to KR were /22s and all the transfers to CN appear to be
> cloud providers from the best I can tell.  There were also another 22
> transfers from APNIC to ARIN, for a total of 303 transfers between APNIC
> and ARIN.
>
> You want to break 94% of the transfers between APNIC and ARIN because you
> don't like 6% of them.
>
> AfriNIC is discussing a similar proposal and a similar proposal was
>> discussed in LACNIC.
>>
>
> Help me understand this, we are going to break transfers to APNIC in hopes
> that ArfNIC and LACNIC won't pass a policy?  Please explain how you expect
> that to work.
>
>
>> It is hoped that by implementing this policy it will put pressure on
>> those registries to be more cooperative with the global community in
>> allowing bi-directional transfers.
>>
>> That is how it helps network operations. Admittedly, it’s a short-term
>> pain for a longer term gain, but that is the intent.
>>
>
> In my opinion the cure you propose is fare worse than the disease you seek
> to remedy.  This policy will seriously damage what seems like a mostly well
> functioning system, primarily to influence a decision that is independent
> of the result.
>
> I cannot support this policy.
>
> Thanks.
>
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