Last month I brokered a sale of legacy ARIN space to a customer in the APNIC region using the Inter-RIR transfer policies in place in both regions. As we know, ARIN has the lion's share of IPv4 space, and this proposal would open the door to this source of address space for buyers in Europe. For sellers of RIPE space, this proposal provides another market or two to sell into. I believe a viable global transfer market in IPv4 addresses will assist in what appears to be a lengthy transition to IPv6 by making available underutilized address space and equalizing transition pressure around the world. I support the proposal. Regards, Mike Burns IPTrading.com -----Original Message----- From: Tore Anderson Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 4:27 PM To: address-policy-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [address-policy-wg] 2012-03 New Draft Document Published(Intra-RIR Transfer Policy Proposal) * Emilio Madaio
The draft document for the proposal described in 2012-03, "Intra-RIR Transfer Policy Proposal", has been published. The impact analysis that was conducted for this proposal has also been published
You can find the full proposa and the impact analysis at:
On this page, it would appear that the phrase «Within the RIPE NCC service region,» is to be added at the beginning of the second paragraph in section 5.5.
and the draft document at:
However, that phrase is not found in the «new text» box on this page. That must be an omission? As a general feedback to the draft document page, not specific to 2012-03, I find it preferable if the «original text» and «new text» boxes are made as small as absolutely possible. If the paragraphs that aren't touched by the proposal are kept outside of those boxes, it is much easier to spot the actual changes made, than it is if you include the entire original and new section side-by-side (as is the case with 2012-03's draft document). Taking it one step further, it would be even better if those paragraphs that have only change by a small amount (i.e., aren't completely rewritten) have the actual changes highlighted, e.g., using strikethrough for deleted text, and coloured text for added text (such as the "Within the RIPE NCC service region" added by this proposal). The changes indicated in sections 6.0 and 6.3 at https://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2009-03/draft are two examples I like. In any case, I support this policy proposal. Best regards, -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/