<div dir="ltr"><pre class="gmail-zcmsgcnt gmail-textL" dir="auto" id="gmail-posted-message-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 26px 0px 0px;padding:0.1px 0px 0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:15.008px;letter-spacing:0.01px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">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.</font></pre><pre class="gmail-zcmsgcnt gmail-textL" dir="auto" id="gmail-posted-message-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 26px 0px 0px;padding:0.1px 0px 0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:15.008px;letter-spacing:0.01px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none">AFRINIC: no inter-RIR v4 transfers.<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none">Everyone: zero IPv6 inter-RIR transfers.</font></pre><pre class="gmail-zcmsgcnt gmail-textL" dir="auto" id="gmail-posted-message-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 26px 0px 0px;padding:0.1px 0px 0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:15.008px;letter-spacing:0.01px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none">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.<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none">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.</font></pre><pre class="gmail-zcmsgcnt gmail-textL" dir="auto" id="gmail-posted-message-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 26px 0px 0px;padding:0.1px 0px 0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:15.008px;letter-spacing:0.01px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none">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.</font></pre><pre class="gmail-zcmsgcnt gmail-textL" dir="auto" id="gmail-posted-message-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 26px 0px 0px;padding:0.1px 0px 0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:15.008px;letter-spacing:0.01px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none">And if an RIR adds a new RSA clause you don’t like? You shouldn’t have to sign it to leave.</font></pre><pre class="gmail-zcmsgcnt gmail-textL" dir="auto" id="gmail-posted-message-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 26px 0px 0px;padding:0.1px 0px 0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:15.008px;letter-spacing:0.01px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">We also need a realistic emergency brake</strong>  <br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none">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.</font></pre><pre class="gmail-zcmsgcnt gmail-textL" dir="auto" id="gmail-posted-message-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 26px 0px 0px;padding:0.1px 0px 0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:15.008px;letter-spacing:0.01px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none">We need something we can use when early warning indicators appear.<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none">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.</font></pre><pre class="gmail-zcmsgcnt gmail-textL" dir="auto" id="gmail-posted-message-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 26px 0px 0px;padding:0.1px 0px 0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:15.008px;letter-spacing:0.01px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:none">This is normal engineering: you build intermediate failure modes so that the failure domain is bounded.</font></pre><pre class="gmail-zcmsgcnt gmail-textL" dir="auto" id="gmail-posted-message-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 26px 0px 0px;padding:0.1px 0px 0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:15.008px;letter-spacing:0.01px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></pre><pre class="gmail-zcmsgcnt gmail-textL" dir="auto" id="gmail-posted-message-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 26px 0px 0px;padding:0.1px 0px 0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:15.008px;letter-spacing:0.01px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Regards,</font></pre><pre class="gmail-zcmsgcnt gmail-textL" dir="auto" id="gmail-posted-message-container" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 26px 0px 0px;padding:0.1px 0px 0px;outline:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:15.008px;letter-spacing:0.01px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Dorothy.</font></pre></div>