My apologies for this being delayed. Yesterday was my first time through the Policy SIG meeting as Chair and this got missed.

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prop-096: Maintaining demonstrated needs requirement in transfer policy after the final /8 phase _______________________________________________________________________

Dear SIG members

Below is a summary of discussions on the proposal to date. We encourage you to continue discussions on the mailing list before the Policy SIG.

Regards,

Andy and Terence

Proposal summary -----------------

This is a proposal to maintain the requirement for recipients of IPv4 transfers to justify their need for address space beyond the current allocation phase and into the final /8 phase.

Discussion statistics ----------------------

Version 1 posted to Policy SIG mailing list: 25 January 2011

Number of posts since proposal first posted: 10

Number of people participating in discussions: 6

Summary of discussion to date ------------------------------

- This proposal was returned to the mailing list following APNIC 32.

- Discussion falls into two distinct opinions. There are those who argue the proposal rectifies an imbalance which prevents Inter-RIR transfer of resources with APNIC where there is high demand, and RIR regions where supply of IPv4 resources exists.

- Those against, argue that a willingness to pay money for transferred resources demonstrates a need and that without an open market for transfers these transactions will be driven underground at the expense of accurate data in the registry.

http://www.apnic.net/policy/proposals/prop-096

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