Re: [sig-policy] Address Transfer Policy Proposal

[Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>]

With this note I'd like to request a little more help from the policy
sig folk in resolving a couple of items that will allow Philip and
myself to revise the address transfer policy proposal in a way that
will assist the community to reach a workable consensus on the topic.

What we have now is a set of highlights that read:

- The transfer proposal applies to all address holdings as held by
  current account holders of APNIC (the existing historical address
  transfer policy covers other potentially relevant scenarios of
  transfers)

- NIRs have the choice as to when to adopt this policy for their
  members (i.e. members of NIRs)

- Prior to the exhaustion of APNIC's IPv4 space (i.e. prior to the use
  of the "final /8" allocation measures) recipients of transfers will
  be required to justify their need for address space. After this time
  there is no requirement for any form of evaluation of requirements
  for eligibility.


We have two suggested alternatives for the final highlight:

A: When a member disposes of address space using this transfer policy
   the member should not be entitled to any further IPv4 allocations
   or assigments from APNIC for a period of 24 months.

or

B: Any address that will be transfered must be held by the transfering
   party for at least 12 months, regardless of how the address was
   obtained.


It would be really useful to hear from some folk about whether it  
makes more
sense in our context to impose a constraint on future allocations  
(option A)
or a constraint on frequency on transfers for any given address  
(option B).

Which option would you prefer to see in the policy proposal?


thanks,

  Geoff

  Disclaimer: As usual, all my own work, etc, etc.