<div>On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 at 00:48, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> On Aug 13, 2018, at 14:42 , Job Snijders <<a href="mailto:job@ntt.net" target="_blank">job@ntt.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I agree with the proposal.<br>
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> I think this proposal is needed and addresses practical concerns: the alternative to transfers is “renumbering”, and renumbering ASNs is a very costly and operationally risky proposition. There is no upside to restricting or forbidding this type of resource transfer.<br>
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> A question that remains: if you don’t want to transfer your ASN in or out of ARIN, then don’t, but why forbid others from doing it? All resources should be transferable.<br>
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We can agree to disagree.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">OK.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">question still stands why anyone would object to others moving resources around. From what I understand from the ARIN staff analysis, implementation of this proposal is not a big deal. <a href="https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2018_1.html">https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2018_1.html</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Having been through several ASN renumbering processes, I found them neither particularly costly (compared to the other tasks related to the event triggering the need for the ASN renumber), nor operationally risky.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Your positive experiences with renumbering ASNs don’t discount the negative experiences that members of the community have observed.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
For the most part, networks themselves don’t move from one continent to another, so the need for migratory ASNs seems rather dubious in the vast majority of cases.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">An example, HQs sometimes move places. Your classification of “dubious” is just an opinion.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Job</div></div></div>