Re: [sig-policy] prop-077: Proposal to supplement transfer policyof hist
On 03/08/2009, at 1:03 PM, Terence Zhang YH wrote:
Terry,
Thanks for your comments.
Our intent is to ensure transfer of historical IPv4 addresses will
comply with
transfer policy for current resources.
So, to anwser your question 'what if they don't meet the
justification criteria?', we recommend
take the same action what the policy of transfer of current IP
addresses will do.
I think this proposal has far wider ramifications.
According to the current status of the discussion of transfer
policy proposal(prop050),
we believe most people favor 'Justification is needed'
I was under the impression that historical address space was excluded
from the prop50 proposal.
Of course, if the final result of transfer policy of current IP
addresses is 'no justification is needed',
we recommend use the same criteria for historical addresses.
So, to play devils advocate, will an organisation bother to attempt to
transfer historical address space before the 'no justification' period?
In such a situation, I might just wait it out and then transfer some
large historical allocation after the 'no justification' mark knowing
that I might not meet the criteria. Or to put it another way, since
transfer of historical space is voluntary, why would I subject myself
to the effort of being assessed by APNIC if I can have the historical
address space under a member account, the assumption being I already
have access to that prefix.
What is the risk to me? would APNIC say I can't have that historical
space and reclaim it?
Knowing that in section 6 of http://www.apnic.net/policy/historical-resource-policies
This section describes the policies and procedures for voluntary
transfer of historical resource registrations to current APNIC account
holders. Resources transferred under this policy will become subject
to the current APNIC policy framework.
Since currently prop050 is still under discussion, in case it does
not reach consensus this time,
our proposal will still recommend 'Justification is needed'; how
ever, when ever
a transfer policy proposal of current addresses is passed, we
recommend use the same criteria.
I think your intent is noble, I just can't see the utility in the
proposal.
Terry