[address-policy-wg] 2013-03: Remove "non-approved" transfer statistics?

Quick question for the WG:

What do you feel 2013-03 should do about the current policy's
requirement to publish aggregate statistics about "non-approved"
transfers?

a) Keep it, or
b) Remove it?

(This is independent of what you feel about 2013-03 overall, BTW.)

Background: Current IPv4 policy states that the NCC should publish
aggregate statistics on "non-approved" transfers:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-582#Transfers-of-Allocations
https://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/ipv4-transfers/table-of-transfers (bottom of page)

I believe that 2013-03 will cause this part of the policy to lose its
usefulness. The way I see it, a failed need evaluation is the principal
reason why the NCC would refuse a transfer, and since 2013-03 takes away
the need evaluation entirely, there's not going to be a lot of refused
transfers.

Furthermore, 2012-05 states explicitly in its rationale that the
intention of the statistics is to record «transfers [that] were denied
on the basis of needs evaluation»:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2012-05

However, this is not written down in the resulting policy (it refers
only generally to "non-approved transfers"), and there are some other
theoretical reasons why a transfer may fail apart from need evaluation,
e.g., procedural violations such as attempts to transfer PI space or
de-aggregate beyond the minimum allocation size.

So I think that the right thing for 2013-03 to do here, given its
ambition to remove old and defunct policy text, is to also remove the
policy provisions relating to non-approved transfer statistics. However,
since it is possible to argue it's still relevant, I wanted to ask the
WG's opinion first. (I'd prefer to leave it as-is, rather than end up
having the entire proposal be ratholed over it.) If enough people
answers "remove" and none "keep", I'll incorporate the removal into
version 2 of 2013-03.

Best regards,
-- 
Tore Anderson