[address-policy-wg] 2014-05 New Draft Document and Impact Analysis Published (Policy for Inter-RIR Transfers of Internet Resources)

Hi John,

> Per <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2014-05>e
>> [...] (although its adoption will have no effect on Inter-RIR
>> transfers between ARIN and the APNIC region.)”

There it is indeed, black on white. Thank you for pointing out my poor
short time memory. :-)

I suppose that the reason why this was being brought up as a possible
problem at the APNIC meeting was that this clarification had not yet
been made at that point.

> The existence of RIPE 2014-05 was raised last week during the ARIN 34
> meeting, and I noted the ARIN staff determination on this matter
> (that APNIC's inter-RIR transfer policy remains compatible with ARIN
> policy if RIPE 2014-05 is adopted by the RIPE community.) The ARIN
> community is aware that they would need to propose some change to
> ARIN's Inter-RIR transfer policy if another outcome is desired.

Ack. This is reasonable and what I would expect. I would find it
interesting to watch this discussion from the ARIN 34 meeting, hopefully
recordings from it will be made available at some point.

> p.s. The RIPE and APNIC RIR policy development staff should be
> thanked for their foresight in researching this topic in advance, and
> arranging for the very coherent "Compatibility with other RIRs"
> section in the RIPE 2014-05 Impact Analysis...  thanks!  :-)

Indeed, it is important to know if the new policy is going to work at
all before adopting it. Not much point in doing it if not...

I guess what remains to be done with 2014-05 in this regard, is to
clarify it so that APNIC (or any other RIR for that matter) realises
that its language isn't meant to cause a "policy loop", but rather to be
accommodating to RIR communities that would like to explicitly insist
that a out of region transfer source/destination entity must be
invariably subjected to a certain set of conditions (which are not
necessarily duplicated in the policies of the region of the
aforementioned entity).

Tore