On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 8:16 AM, John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > So, to start the discussion, what is the underlying need for an IPv4 > transfer policy, and why?
Hi John, My knee-jerk response is that there are two distinct needs for the existence of a transfer policy. Need #1: So that organizations may buy and sell portions of their networking business and have the registry accurately reflect the current owner of those business elements. Need #2: So that IP addresses may be quickly and efficiently reassigned from one organization's lower-value applications to another's higher-value applications. Value being in the view of the two respective resource holders, not some wacky top-down definition. > I will get things going with a potential > less-contentious > example - it is quite possible that the an IPv4 transfer policy is > necessary > to insure that blocks that are transferred are of a minimum size. While > the > ISP community _may_ be capable of dealing with a flood of /30’s suddenly > appearing and seeking routing, it is quite unclear if there is any > benefit in > creating that potential condition, and there is certainly risk to the > Internet if > ISPs succumb to the customer pressure and route such in large quantity. Perhaps I misunderstood you. I thought you wanted to start with the underlying need for ARIN to have a transfer policy and drill down later. Minimum block size is a secondary objective we might want addressing policy in general (including a transfer policy) to achieve. It's not specific to transfer policy and doesn't drive the need for transfer policy. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
