transfer policy

[Sweeting, John]

Jason, 

I see your point more clearly now but it really was advantageous for me to
do this because both companies had beaucoup legacy address space that had
never been justified but due to the transfer now had to be. 
I could probably agree with you if both companies involved in a transfer
owned nothing but ARIN justified address space that it could be a waste of
time and resources to re-justify the space. I have no idea how many
transfers today are in that category. My feeling is that this policy has
helped to clean up some of the legacy address space issues that are out
there.

Kim, is there any statistics kept on this? or would any of your staff be
able to make an educated swag? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Redisch [mailto:jredisch at virtela.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 11:23 PM
To: policy at arin.net
Subject: RE: transfer policy 


John,

	Being able to distinguish known ISP to ISP transfers that both have
an ARIN
history vs. all other transfers has an advantage on its own by allowing ARIN
to dedicate more resources to unknown transfers.

	Other than that both MCI and C&W had already justified their address
space
to ARIN. During the transfer you had to show legal transfer and rejustify
both ISP's address space even though both were already ARIN members.  You
also had a history of coming back to ARIN for IP space so if the
justification was not completed then it is not like you would disappear off
the face of the Earth.   I see no reason why we as a community need to waste
your resources and ARIN's re-justifying both of the address pools in a
merger like the one you went through.

	It is not a question of putting off something that needs to be
justified.
It is a question of spending time going through two justifications or just
one.

-Jason