* McTim
I see this as potentially creating a good deal of admin overhead for the RIRs, which will impact all LIRs
Having recently been told over dinner by an NCC employee something along the lines of «I don't think the RIPE Community quite realises how much effort goes into implementing policy changes», I find this worrisome as well. Especially considering that the Impact Analysis makes an explicit point out of it.
while the upside will only be for those few who want to further commoditise Internet numbering resources.
Can't say I agree with this. If I, having absolutely no agenda «to further commoditise Internet numbering resources», need to obtain IPv4 address space for purely technical reasons, a transfer is the only way to go about it these days. This proposal would increase the number of sellers I could buy from, which would be to my benefit. On the other hand, it would at the same time increase the number of buyers I would have to compete with, so it might well be a zero-sum game for me. Or maybe not. Difficult to predict, really. In any case, the cost (i.e., the administrative overhead) of this proposal may be justified if there is enough members that are actually interested in participating in the IPv4 transfer market in the first place. I think the implementation of proposal 2012-05 might provide valuable data in this regard. I'll stay on the fence about 2012-02 until than, at least. Another thing I'm curious about is how this proposal will impact transfers of legacy/pre-RIR/ERX space (if at all), how these are handled today, and if there's any interaction with 2012-07 to be considered. -- Tore Anderson