On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:31 +0200, Filiz Yilmaz wrote:
PDP Number: 2007-08 Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources
Dear Colleagues,
The Review Period for the proposal 2007-08 has been extended until 9 July 2008.
You can find the full proposal at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-08.html
We encourage you to review this policy proposal and send your comments to address-policy-wg@ripe.net.
The draft ยง5.5 says: "Demonstration of need for the address space by the receiving LIR to the RIPE NCC is not required during transfers." I belive terms should be the same for any allocation. I.e we may discuss and revise the general terms that must be met to qualify for an allocation, but should not make such an exception for transfers. Then there are more general concerns; It has and will be discussed whether the suggested policy serves to enable a market or not. It can also be considered an attempt to introduce some form of market regulation. Any way, this is a fundamental change of direction for the RIR, and does imho deserve some serious thoughts and analysis of potential implications: - Legal - Financial (liability for harm to business) - How to resolve desputes. - What mechanisms are necessary for efficient regulation. Personally I'd prefer the present policies to continue, where a block must be returned to RIPE before the NCC re-allocates according to normal rules. That does not encourage the creation of a market, but has anyone yet been able to precent viable plans for a scheme able to reclaim enough addresses to support current network growth for any significant time past depletion of the free pool? //per