[ICP2_review] Let people keep their addresses

[C A]

We do routing for a living. When you re-home a network or migrate an
ASN between continents, the biggest operational hit shouldn’t be
“oops, your RIR doesn’t let you take the space with you”. But that’s
exactly where we still are.


AFRINIC: no inter-RIR v4 transfers.
Everyone: zero IPv6 inter-RIR transfers.


So if a company moves from South Africa to Germany, or changes transit
from NTT to Lumen, the address space becomes “territorial” — which
makes no sense because the DFZ sees all of it as one table anyway.
This is why we keep bringing up telephone number portability. When
people switch mobile carriers, they don’t surrender their phone
numbers. The namespace is the namespace. The addresses belong to the
user’s ongoing operation, not the jurisdiction’s pride.


Article 4.1 needs to simply state: all RIRs must permit portability of
IPv4 and IPv6 allocations across providers and across RIR regions, and
they must process that without arbitrary hold-ups. Stewardship checks?
Sure. Fraud prevention? Yes. But terms-of-service leverage or
contractual hostage-taking? No.


And if an RIR adds a new RSA clause you don’t like? You shouldn’t have
to sign it to leave.


*We also need a realistic emergency brake*
The draft references the 25% / 2,000 member ICANN audit trigger.
Nobody in operations believes that is the mechanism that fixes
governance drift. It’s the one you use after the entire thing is
already on fire.


We need something we can use when early warning indicators appear.
If 5% of Members — or 100 Members — say “we need review”, the NRO
Executive Council should investigate and publish a report. If they
find obvious failures, they should be able to recommend censure or
suggest the community remove directors through the bylaws. This way we
can recognise and respond to warning signs without detroying the whole
registry.


This is normal engineering: you build intermediate failure modes so
that the failure domain is bounded.


Regards,

Dorothy.
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