Re: [sig-policy] prop-050-v002: IPv4 address transfers

[Shin SHIRAHATA <null@null.nu>]

Dear Geoff,

> Conditions on the IPv4 address block:
> 
>      - Only IPv4 address blocks equal to, or larger than, a /24 prefix
>        may be transferred.
> 
>      - The address block must be in the range of addresses administered
>        by APNIC, either as part of a /8 address block assigned by the
>        IANA to APNIC, or as part of a historically-assigned address
>        block now administered by APNIC.
> 
>      - The address block must be allocated or assigned to a current
>        APNIC account holder.
> 
>      - The address block will be subject to all current APNIC policies
>        from the time of transfer. This includes address blocks
>        previously considered to be "historical".

I believe this proposal will play an important role in next few years.

I think these conditions are not clear that transfer part of address 
block is allowed.

For example, an entity that have /16 can transfer /17 to another entity
or entity should transfer whole of /16.

regards,
Shin

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