Ah! Thank you David! I though it meant available inventory.
I am okay with the sentence in that case and I understand why it was placed there. I support the policy as written. Regards, Mike From: David Farmer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 3:31 PM To: Mike Burns <[email protected]> Cc: ARIN <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Revised: ARIN-2017-4: Remove Reciprocity Requirement for Inter-RIR Transfers On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Mike Burns <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi, Can we get a definition of "IPv4 total inventory"? Is all IPv4 address space held by the RIR in any pools and that which has been allocated or assigned, legacy or otherwise. I think you are thinking of RIR free pools or available inventory, not total inventory. Look at the NRO slides; https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/NRO_Q2_2017.pdf Slide #5 comes close, but I think it is missing legacy resources, so ARIN has even more than is shown there. The point here is that LACNIC and AFRINIC have way less total inventory and one could argue they don't have a fair share of the global IPv4 resource pool. Therefore requiring them to have a reciprocal transfer policies is some what insensitive to how the IPv4 resources are currently divided on a global level. More than 10 /8s would have to be transferred to LACNIC and AFRINIC each before the had any where near the average total IPv4 inventory of all the RIRs. Do reserves of all flavors count? Does ARIN staff whip out the calculators on the day the transfer request is received? Will they hold transfers in abeyance until the ratios work out, then quickly process them? Does this provide an incentive for LACNIC and AFRINIC to rid themselves of IPv4 reserves? Are all RIR inventories updated daily? The average could change throughout the day unless the RIRs publish at the same time. Imagine the situation of a buyer in AFRINIC, biting his nails to see whether a change in APNIC or RIPE will allow his transfer to go through today. I support the policy but it would be far better to lose that additional sentence. Just drop the world reciprocal and if problems arise they can be dealt with later. Regards, Mike Burns _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> if you experience any issues. -- =============================================== David Farmer Email:[email protected] <mailto:email%[email protected]> Networking & Telecommunication Services Office of Information Technology University of Minnesota 2218 University Ave SE Phone: 612-626-0815 Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029 Cell: 612-812-9952 ===============================================
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