On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: .... > I’d be OK with this, but given that there is remaining free pool for these > resources, I’m not sure that it isn’t better to have a clear policy that when > the resources in these categories are no longer needed, voluntary return to > ARIN is expected.
On Monday, there was discussion (during policy experience report) about ARIN not being able to provide "theoretical" pre-qualifications in the case where (in the example) you transfer a /16 to someone, and would want to get a /24 from somewhere else. And while most steeped in the ARIN process understand that qualifying is an almost certainty, that does not take it to the level some seem to need to feel entirely comfortable. As far as this proposal, I can imagine there to be cases were a transfer may only make sense if the receiving org can be assured that they will be able to get the IP numbers from a reserved pool which ARIN cannot make assurance on in advance. And while (as before) everyone may be (almost) 100% sure that the recipient will qualify, that does not always make everyone sufficiently comfortable. It would seem to be nice for a 8.3 transfer which happens to include reserved pool space not turn into another policy experience report bullet for not being able to successfully transfer (worst case?) "CI" space if indeed the recipient would otherwise qualify (and potentially force a renumber of such resources for no particular policy reason). I do agree with Owen that these cases are unlikely. And regardless of whether the (what I think is) better language as proposed by Scott is included, I would support the policy moving forward to address the problem statement. _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
