On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl> wrote:

Hello working group,

> You can find the full proposal and the impact analysis at:
> https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-04

Thanks to Marco and the rest of the RIPE NCC for this extensive impact analysis.

+1, this impact analysis was also a pleasure to read for this n00b.

This impact analysis uncovers a very serious issue that has slipped under our radar in the "Entities That Can Receive a Transfer". The issue raised from the RIPE NCC Executive Board looks completely legitimate to us.

For those of you who haven't read the impact analysis yet, this is the core of the issue:

> The RIPE NCC impact analysis notes that acceptance of this proposal could significantly affect the stability of the RIR system as a whole by allowing transfer of any resource (including assigned PA space) to any entity including one that is not a member of the RIPE NCC (or any other RIR).

This is a serious issue that will affect all of us. The chairs take this issue into the consensus-reaching process and we ask the authors and working group to address this.

I didn't anticipate this issue, either, and I agree that the RIPE NCC's concerns are valid and real.

Shouldn't this be a rather straightforward thing to fix in the proposal?

Or am I missing something here?

Jan