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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,

Gaurab, Ching-Heng, 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 - -----------------------------

- There were strong opinions expressed for and against this proposal.

- Those for the proposal argue that it rectifies an imbalance in policy that will prevent other RIRs from accepting global transfers to APNIC.

- 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