creation of taskforce to support the ERX project (early registration xfer)

  Dear participants in the DB and LIR WGs,

  as discussed and agreed in the DB-WG in Rhodes,
  and reported to the plenary, this is the

  	"heads up" for the creation of a TaskForce (ERX-TF)

  to help in planning and test-driving the procedures and activities
  required to *most efficiently* perform the transfer of "early
  registrations" (sometimes also referred to as "legacy" IPv4 address
  space) from the ARIN DB to the RIPE DB..

  		[ For background information about the ERX Project
		  please refer to the RIPE / RIPE NCC web pages. ]


  The proposed name of the TaskForce is "ERX-TF" .


  The preliminary and initial description of the activity is as follows:

	"The goal of the TF is to develop a proposal to the community of
	 the transfer of early registration IPv4 address records (ERX)
	 from ARIN to the RIPE NCC."

  For a start, I'd expect the TF to review the lessons learned from the
  transfer of AS Number Objects, and to investigate new or different
  issues with the already agreed transfer of IPv4 address space objects.


  The necessary next steps are

  1) to ask the bigger community, by way of the mailing lists,
     whether there are any objections against the creation of the TF

  2) to work on a refinement of the mandate, tasks to perform, and the
     expected results

  3) to agree on a schedule, set of participants and to find a coordinator.


  Most of the work should be done by way of exchanging email amongst the
  TF Partcipants. Following up on expressions of interest as received
  during the RIPE43 WG session, an initial list of individuals would be
  put onto the mailing list.  [ please see at the bottom of this mail ]

  Of course, if you are no longer interested - just let us know.
  Also, if you _are_ interested to join in - but did not or could not
  indicate your interest in Rhodes, please get back to us asap!

  Assuming that there would not be a major show-stopper, could I ask the
  NCC to follow up with any useful info (list name, draft schedule,...)
  to get us going as soon as possible?

  Cheers,
  Wilfried.


Initial list of TF particpants:

Havard Eidnes <he at uninett.no>
Hank Nussbacher <hank at att.net.il>
Gabriella Paolini <gabriella.paolini at garr.it>
Kristian Rastas <kristian.rastas at sonera.com>
Nigel Titley
Ruediger Volk
Wilfried Woeber <woeber at cc.univie.ac.at>

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