Re: [sig-policy] Address Transfer Policy Proposal
With this note I'd like to request a little more help from the policy
sig folk in resolving a couple of items that will allow Philip and
myself to revise the address transfer policy proposal in a way that
will assist the community to reach a workable consensus on the topic.
What we have now is a set of highlights that read:
- The transfer proposal applies to all address holdings as held by
current account holders of APNIC (the existing historical address
transfer policy covers other potentially relevant scenarios of
transfers)
- NIRs have the choice as to when to adopt this policy for their
members (i.e. members of NIRs)
- Prior to the exhaustion of APNIC's IPv4 space (i.e. prior to the use
of the "final /8" allocation measures) recipients of transfers will
be required to justify their need for address space. After this time
there is no requirement for any form of evaluation of requirements
for eligibility.
We have two suggested alternatives for the final highlight:
A: When a member disposes of address space using this transfer policy
the member should not be entitled to any further IPv4 allocations
or assigments from APNIC for a period of 24 months.
or
B: Any address that will be transfered must be held by the transfering
party for at least 12 months, regardless of how the address was
obtained.
It would be really useful to hear from some folk about whether it
makes more
sense in our context to impose a constraint on future allocations
(option A)
or a constraint on frequency on transfers for any given address
(option B).
Which option would you prefer to see in the policy proposal?
thanks,
Geoff
Disclaimer: As usual, all my own work, etc, etc.