[arin-ppml] ARIN Response to AFRINIC on Policy compatibility

[Ingrid Wijte]

Dear Mike and all,

On 19/01/2017 22:02, Mike Burns wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> An inbound-only policy is also under development at LACNIC and will hit the
> discussion list there next week.
>
> RIPE has officially said they will accept the provisions of the AFRINIC
> inbound policy and will send RIPE addresses to AFRINIC should the AFRINIC
> policy be implemented as written.
>
> RIPE has told me they will treat any pending LACNIC policy the same way, if
> the operative language is similar.
I would like to clarify that based on *current* RIPE policies, the 
current inbound policy proposal in the Afrinic region would indeed be 
compatible. However, there is ofcourse always the possibility that these 
policies will change in the future.

Best regards,

Ingrid Wijte
RIPE NCC

>
> LACNIC also has a relatively rigorous needs-test for transfers, AFAIK they
> even require the use of NAT.
>
> I think the ARIN community must take notice of the relative superabundance
> of IPv4 space in the region and how less address-rich regions must feel in
> this age of exhaust.
>
> The recent IPv4 market analysis at RIPE indicates that the transfer market
> is fueled to a large extent by legacy address acting as supply. These legacy
> addresses are again much more abundant in ARIN than they are in AFRINIC or
> LACNIC.
>
> My personal experience is that the LACNIC transfer market is suffering from
> a lack of supply, and buyers are being asked to pay higher prices due to
> scarcity. I believe that it is in the best interests of the Internet for
> there to be a global market in IPv4 addresses. Unfortunately the
> address-poor regions feel shortchanged, and they view any two-way policy as
> a potential to lose some of their paltry amount to richer regions.
>
> As a half-way step towards a truly global market, accepting that some
> regions (and some NIRs) will not allow outbound transfers today, I believe
> ARIN should join RIPE and remove the language about reciprocity, while
> maintaining the requirement for compatible needs testing.
>
> Regards,
> Mike Burns
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ARIN-PPML [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of David R
> Huberman
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 3:37 PM
> To: arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN Response to AFRINIC on Policy compatibility
>
>
> Last week, ARIN staff sent to this list a copy of their response to AFRINIC
> on inter-RIR transfer policy compatability.
>
> The AFRINIC community is considering a one-way transfer policy as a
> bootstrap for the few years until they reach IPv4 runout, at which point it
> would aim to become two-way.
>
> I feel like as a member of the internet community, that ARIN (we - us - the
> PPML participants) should be accepting that an RIR in a different region has
> different needs than we do. I think we should allow African internet
> operators to obtain blocks from sellers in the ARIN region, and transfer
> them to AFRINIC to meet their needs.
>
> The AFRINIC inbound transfer policy is very ARIN-like. It's needs-basis, and
> the language looks very similar to 8.2 and 8.3 language we've had at ARIN
> for a very long time.
>
> cf.
>
> http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/1803
> -inbound-transfer-policy
>
> That's my opinion.  What's yours?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, ARIN wrote:
>
>> To PPML -
>>
>> As a result of policy discussions in the AFRINIC region, ARIN is
>> providing the following to information:
>>
>> On 30 September 2016 ARIN received a query from AFRINIC requesting an
>> assessment on the compatibility of AFRINIC proposed
>> 1803-inbound-transfer-policy with ARIN policy. On 6 October 2016 ARIN
>> responded with the following assessment:
>>
>> Based on ARINb
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