[address-policy-wg] declining 2012-01

On 14 April 2012 00:52, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
> [Milton L Mueller] But that is precisely the crux of the problem we are facing. If you think it's hard to get a single coherent
> policy through one RIR/state, trying getting one through 5, especially when the incentives of the members of the different
> territorial communities diverge.
> Territorially exclusive RIRs are very similar in structure and incentives to territorially sovereign states, and defining a single,
> uniform policy for inter-RIR transfers is very much like negotiating a trade treaty.
>
> In short, I think a global policy should completely supplant the regional/territorial policy.


... but what required is not a single policy globally but rather 5
(actually you would technically need more for the NIR that exist)
policies that interoperate. How they do this depends on the RIRs to
decide for themselves:

1. Afrinic - "We do not support inter RIR transfers"
2. ARIN - "We support transfers to RIRs where there is a policy that
exists to support the reverse"
3. RIPE - "We've not decided so until then they are not supported"
etc

All these policies are interoperable, its only where they don't mesh
that there is a problem.

RIPE needs a policy (even if the policy is "we don't support this")
and then other regions can get their policy to match up, I hope that
the policy that is about to be released to this list (with other
authors) can solve this problem.

J

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