* Nikolas Pediaditis <nikolas.pediaditis@ripe.net>
The moratorium that the APNIC EC had set for inter-RIR transfers with the RIPE NCC has been officially lifted as of early September and it was announced during APNIC 40.
The transcript of the APNIC 40 AMM session is available at: https://conference.apnic.net/data/40/10-Sept-AMM.txt
Here is the quotation with regard to this matter:
"Inter-RIR transfer policy: it was one of the items which the Executive Council decided previously. We had a moratorium for the inter-RIR transfer with RIPE NCC, but at this time in the Executive Council meeting on Monday, we decided to resolve to lift -- that means discontinue -- the temporary moratorium on the inter-RIR transfers with RIPE NCC. That is the reaction that RIPE NCC recently set the new inter-RIR transfer policy to require the recipient of the transfer from the other RIR region which has the demonstrated need policy. So that helped us to lift this moratorium. So now you can transfer the IPv4 address, if you need it, with someone in the RIPE NCC region."
There is also the video version available (at 58:38): https://conference.apnic.net/40/program#sessions/amm
Therefore inter-RIR transfers of IPv4 and ASNs are possible between resource holders in the APNIC and RIPE regions. Both RIRs will be cooperating in accordance with their policies.
Nicholas, Thank you for the update. I hope you can clarify one thing for me, which I find the APNIC and RIPE communites' policies to be crystal clear about, but given the above quote as well as the phrasing in section IV of ripe-651 I am not so sure about the actual implementation. It's a simple yes or no question: If there is a transfer from the APNIC region to the RIPE region, will the RIPE region recipient required to «provide a plan to the RIPE NCC for the use of at least 50% of the transferred resources within 5 years»? Tore