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On 13 Oct 2020, at 8:48 AM, John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net" class="">jcurran@arin.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class=""><i class=""><span class="">1. Does the policy impose any conditions on recipient organizations in the ARIN region receiving </span><span class="">transfers from AFRINIC-served entities?</span></i></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">No. The final version of this proposal indicates clearly that no condition will be imposed on the recipient’s organization in other regions, which obviously also applies to the case of ARIN.</b></div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>We’re having trouble now reconciling your response above (regarding conditions of recipient organizations in the ARIN region) with the following statement in the provided policy text
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><b class="">"5.7.4.2 The recipient must be an AFRINIC or any RIR member, legacy holders in any region”</b></div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: pre;"></span>The way the policy text is written makes it very challenging to determine what criteria are to be applied by AFRINIC versus criteria that are to be applied to organizations
served by other RIRs, and that was the reason for our two questions about regarding conditions to be imposed on ARIN-region organizations. Our plain reading of 5.7.4.2 suggests that it would need to be applied by ARIN to ARIN-region recipients. </div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>If this is the case, then the proposed policy is not compatible with ARIN’s NRPM 8.4 requirements for compatible transfer policies – as ARIN would need to (despite your earlier response)
apply this “member legacy holder” criteria when processing requests by ARIN customers to receive number resources via InterRIR transfer from AFRINIC-served customers. </div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>I will observe that there is a real risk of incompatibility when RIRs write specific policy criteria to be applied by other RIRs; in this case, it is worth noting that not all ARIN customers
are members or legacy resource holders, and thus the proposed policy as written would not be available to a significant portion of the ARIN community. (This conflict also points out the value of staff involvement in formal review of proposed InterRIR transfer
policies, as there are many details that need to align for smooth transfer processing.)</div>
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<div class="">Thanks,</div>
<div class="">/John</div>
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<div class="">John Curran</div>
<div class="">President and CEO</div>
<div class="">American Registry for Internet Numbers</div>
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