On Mar 21, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl> wrote:
Voluntary evaluation of need? It would be a service from the NCC. Something like: you don't need to prove need for the NCC, but if you want advice/evaluation the NCC will assist you and perform the needs based analysis. The NCC has a lot of expertise in this area. Even when showing/documenting need is not required anymore that knowledge could benefit LIRs. It could be useful for new LIRs that need a bit of guidance when assigning addresses to customers.
And the NCC doing a "needs test" might make ARIN happy when doing transfers. (I just know that John will reply to this statement ;-)
ARIN's Inter-RIR transfer policy can only happen to an RIR which shares a "reciprocal, compatible, needs-based policy". A voluntary mechanism does not equate to a "needs-based" policy, so we would have a conflict. As noted by others on this list, there is nothing fundamentally wrong about such a conflict, other than the fact that it would mean additional discussion in both regions about the value of alignment and options for getting there. FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN