On Aug 1, 2013, at 6:00 PM, Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no> wrote:
APNIC and ARIN happens to share compatible inter-region transfer policies. Yet, the number of inter-region transfers going from the ARIN region to the APNIC region is negligible - at RIPE66 the total amount of transfers was reported to be 11 (5 per annum, if extrapolating linearly).
ARIN Inter-RIR Transfer statistics are available here: <https://www.arin.net/knowledge/statistics/transfers.html> Presently there have been 16 transfers in the period of time of that compatible policy has been in place (approximately 1 year); the blocks transferred range in size from /24 to /15, and are listed on the transfer statistics page.
So the notion that there is some big hidden reserve sitting around in the ARIN region, ripe for the taking and ready to transform our current our state of scarcity into one of abundance (if we only pass an inter-region transfer policy!), seems extremely implausible to me. At least it has not worked out that way for the APNIC region.
I am not asserting any relation between the ARIN/APNIC transfer rate to the desirability for IP transfers to those in the RIPE region, but provide the above information solely for a factual basis of the discussion since the question was raised. FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN