[address-policy-wg] 2012-05 New Draft and Impact Analysis Documents Published (Transparency in Address Block Transfers)

Dear Tore,

> Quoting from 2012-05's impact analysis:
> 
> «It is worth mentioning that the RIPE NCC is willing to publish details
> on resource transfers and a report has not been requested so far. Only
> one transfer has been recorded in the RIPE NCC service region recently,
> and this is why no details on resource transfers have been published so
> far.»
> 
> I'm hereby requesting the details on the transfer mentioned. In
> particular, I'd like to know the date of the transfer, which specific
> prefix(es) it involved, and the origin and destination LIRs. I'd like
> this information in order to try to confirm my belief that this
> information is possible to extract from the stats files already
> available on the FTP.
> 
> Also, if there has been more transfers since the impact analysis was
> written, I'd like to see their details, as well. If possible, I would
> prefer to see a daily updated (and easy to parse) text file with all the
> transfers and their details being made available on the FTP.

Publishing this information as a daily updated file on our FTP or web site
is most likely the format that the RIPE NCC would prefer as well.

However, given this proposal and the discussion around it, we would prefer
to wait until it reaches a conclusion before publishing.

We already publish various files that reflect the state of the RIPE registry:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/pub/stats/ripencc/
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/membership/alloclist.txt
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/

Comparing different versions of these files will show any transfers that were
done under the transfer policy. It would however also show the results of the
various types of mergers, acquisitions and divestments that also happen on a
regular basis.

I hope this answers your questions for now.

Best regards,

Alex Le Heux
Policy Implementation and Co-ordination
RIPE NCC