[address-policy-wg] 2013-03: Remove "non-approved" transfer statistics?
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Milton L Mueller
mueller at syr.edu
Tue Apr 2 16:37:09 CEST 2013
Approaching this issue from the standpoint of transparency, statistical accuracy and statistical consistency, which are dear to us social scientists, I would argue to keep it in there. First, there may be a half year or more before 2013-3 goes into effect, if it eventually is passed. So we should during that period gain a statistical read on how many transfers are not approved. Now suppose that 2013-3 is passed and implemented. At worst, the number of non-approved transfers drops to 0. That is not a costly or troublesome thing. If it stays at 0 for a year or two, we can remove that reporting requirement later, and easily. OTOH, there is a chance that there are other reasons they are not approved, which Tore mentioned. In that case the current policy is generating potentially useful information. In short, I see no real gain in removing it now, and a possibility of lost information. We should just wait. --MM > -----Original Message----- > From: address-policy-wg-bounces at ripe.net [mailto:address-policy-wg- > bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Tore Anderson > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 1:02 AM > To: address-policy-wg at ripe.net > Subject: [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
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