15 Oct
2014
15 Oct
'14
4:21 p.m.
On 15/10/14 09:10, Tore Anderson wrote: > * Tore Anderson > >> I'm perplexed that the APNIC staff is uncertain whether or not 2014-05 >> is compatible with their policy. The way I read them, they unequivocally >> are. > 2) Assuming the previous point is handled, there is an additional > concern that if 2014-05 passes, it will cause ARIN to declare that > APNIC's policy is no longer compatible. It wasn't entirely clear to me > if they though this would happen instantaneously (by ARIN-the-RIR, not > the community), or if they were worried that the ARIN community would > react by changing their policies to make them incompatible. > > - The instantaneous alternative does strike me as somewhat far fetched, > considering that ARIN has already deemed APNIC's policy to be > «reciprocal, compatible, needs-based», and the fact that 2014-05 doesn't > change a single word in neither ARIN's nor APNIC's policy documents. > That said, obviously I can't know for certain if 2014-04 could possibly > cause such an instantaneous change in how ARIN interprets APNIC's policy > text. Maybe John could chime in? > > - The other alternative, where 2014-05's passing would prompt the ARIN > community to change their policy document so that APNIC<->ARIN transfers > are no longer possible, does seems more plausible, yet somewhat > speculative as we have no idea whether the ARIN community cares about > 2014-05 at all and if so what they think about it. > > Another possibility, which was suggested by one commentator, is that the > APNIC community preempts such an ARIN policy change, by changing their > own policy instead (if they feel it is necessary in order to keep the > ARIN community happy that is). > Just for information, at the recent ARIN meeting last week, John Curran stated that the adoption of 2014-05 would *not* impair the ability of LIRs to transfer address space from ARIN to APNIC and thence to RIPE NCC. Nigel