RE: [sig-policy]Policy proposal: Historical Resource Transfer
There are a few points I haven't grasped yet, but let me confirm them
at the meeting.
Izumi
From: "Paul Wilson" <pwilson at apnic dot net>
Subject: RE: [sig-policy]Policy proposal: Historical Resource Transfer
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:16:59 +1000
> Hi Izumi
>
> > This is Izumi again.
> > I have some questions about the fee after the transfer.
>
> An important part of the proposal is to make these transfers as easy as
> possible, and as a service to APNIC Members there would be no fee for a
> transfer.
>
> >
> > Would the historical addresses be counted in the annual
> > maintaince fee once it is trasfered to an LIR?
>
> Once transferred, the addresses would become "current" and part of the total
> address space holdings of the APNIC Member. Therefore they would be
> considered in assessment of a member's membership tier, at the time of
> renewal os APNIC membership.
>
> >
> > Another question is about the fee for NIRs. Assuming NIRs can
> > also be the subject to receiving historical resources, would
> > per address fee apply at the time of transfer?
>
> I believe that the policy should be open to members of NIRs, is that is
> desired. Again there should be no transfer fee, however the address space
> would be considered as NIR address space for the purposes of assessment of
> membership tier.
>
> >
> > Since the meeting is close, I am happy to have further
> > discussions at the meeting. Just wanted to share my questions
> > in the ML beforehand.
>
> Happy to discuss further next week.
>
> Paul.
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > From: "Paul Wilson" <pwilson at apnic dot net>
> > Subject: [sig-policy]Policy proposal: Historical Resource Transfer
> > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:12:11 +1000
> >
> > >
> > > Supporting Historical Resource Transfer
> > >
> > > Proposed by: Paul Wilson, APNIC Secretariat
> > > Version: 1.0
> > > Date: 18 July 2003
> > >
> > > 1 Summary
> > >
> > > There are 2 types of Internet resources managed by APNIC: "current"
> > > resources, registered by APNIC under explicit policies and
> > agreements;
> > > and "historical" resources, registered under early registry
> > policies
> > > without formal agreements. Some of the historical
> > resources managed
> > > by APNIC were registered by APNIC during its early days (prior
> > > to the existence of a membership structure); while some were
> > > registered by other registries prior to the RIR system, then
> > > subsequently transferred to APNIC.
> > >
> > > It is consistent with IP resource management goals that all
> > resource
> > > registrations managed by APNIC be properly maintained under current
> > > agreements, for reasons of accuracy of registration, fairness of
> > > distribution, and efficiency of management. To this end, it is
> > > proposed that APNIC introduce policies to facilitate the voluntary
> > > transfer of historical resource registrations from the applicable
> > > resource holders, to organisations which are current APNIC
> > > members. These transfers would be subject to no approval
> > > criteria, but following transfer, transferred resource would
> > > be considered as "current" and therefore subject to all
> > > applicable APNIC policies.
> > >
> > > 2 Background and Rationale
> > >
> > > As mentioned above, historical resource registrations
> > (including IPv4
> > > address blocks and AS numbers) are maintained by APNIC without any
> > > covering agreements of any kind. Most of these registrations were
> > > initially made by the global predecessor registries of ARIN
> > (DDN-NIC,
> > > SRI-NIC, InterNIC), and inherited automatically by ARIN on its
> > > establishment. Such registrations, where made to
> > > organisations in the APNIC region, are being transferred to
> > > APNIC during 2003, through the RIRs' "Early Registration
> > > Transfer" (ERX) project. In addition to these, some
> > > historical resource registrations have been inherited by
> > > APNIC from the former AUNIC address registry.
> > >
> > > Because historical resources are not governed by any formal
> > agreement,
> > > there is little or no incentive for resource holders to maintain
> > > registrations, nor to return to APNIC any resources which are not
> > > being used. In some cases, the resources concerned have
> > been claimed
> > > dishonestly (or
> > > "hijacked") by third parties; and in a minority of these, resources
> > > have then been used for hacking or spamming activities.
> > >
> > > The APNIC membership as a whole continues to incur financial and
> > > technical costs for the maintenance of historical resource
> > > registrations, while resource holders receive a benefit at
> > no cost. In
> > > addition, the possible illegal use of incorrectly
> > registered resources
> > > may create a legal liability or risk for APNIC, with the
> > potential for
> > > associated costs to APNIC members.
> > >
> > > 3 Proposal
> > >
> > > In response to the problems described above, it is proposed that
> > > measures be considered which will, over time, bring historical
> > > resource registrations into the current policy framework.
> > A specific
> > > measure proposed is to allow historical resources which are not
> > > required by their registered holder to be easily transferred to
> > > organisations which hold current agreements with APNIC, on the
> > > understanding that those resources will then be considered
> > > "current" and therefore subject to the appropriate policies
> > > and agreements.
> > >
> > > Importantly, it is proposed that these resource transfers should be
> > > recognised and registered by APNIC without the requirement for
> > > technical review or approval. The only conditions placed upon a
> > > transfer would be: that the holder of the historical resource is
> > > verified and registered; and that both parties give
> > explicit consent
> > > to a transfer.
> > >
> > > It is noted that APNIC will not review any agreements
> > > between the parties to a transfer, and will exert no
> > control over the
> > > type of agreement which may be made.
> > >
> > > 4 Implementation
> > >
> > > Four specific steps will need to be taken, in sequence, in order to
> > > process a transfer under this policy:
> > >
> > > a. validation and registration of the existing holder;
> > > b. verification of their intention to transfer a resource;
> > > c. verification of the recipient's consent to receive a
> > > transfer; and
> > > d. registration of the transferred resource.
> > >
> > > APNIC procedures already include well established processes for
> > > validating historical resource registrations, including
> > documentation,
> > > request forms, and statutory declaration/indemnification
> > forms (step a
> > > above). An additional transfer form would be developed for
> > historical
> > > resource holders to request a transfer to a specific party,
> > > identified as a current APNIC member (step b).
> > >
> > > It is noted that an organisation wishing to receive a
> > transfer must be
> > > a member of APNIC prior to the lodgement of a transfer
> > request form.
> > > This new member organisation would not be required to pay the
> > > "Resource Request Processing Fee" in order to receive a transfer
> > > (however it would have to pay that fee at a later time in order to
> > > submit a conventional resource request to APNIC).
> > >
> > > On receipt of a validated request form (step b above), APNIC will
> > > contact the member organisation named as recipient, to verify that
> > > they wish to receive the resource (step c). An appropriate
> > interface
> > > could be developed within MyAPNIC to support this process, however
> > > this is not likely to be required initially.
> > >
> > > Finally, APNIC would register the transferred resource and
> > notify the
> > > registered holder, as it does in the case of any normal resource
> > > allocation (step c).
> > >
> > > It is noted that resources transferred under this policy would
> > > thereafter be subject to the provisions of all normal address
> > > management policies. Specifically: the use of transferred
> > resources
> > > would need to be documented as a part of current resource
> > holdings in
> > > any future APNIC address requests; and the transferred
> > resources would
> > > be considered in the assessment of the APNIC membership tier of the
> > > organisation, on the renewal of their membership.
> > >
> > > If is proposed to implement this policy three months after
> > approval by
> > > the APNIC community.
> > >
> >
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