On 7 Sep 2017, at 12:42 PM, Kevin Blumberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > In re-reading the problem statement the following information was given. > > "ARIN staff, in reply to an inquiry from AFRINIC, have formally indicated > that ARINs 8.4 policy language will not allow ARIN to participate in such > one-way transfers." > > The use of one-way transfers completely mitigates any loss on the one side, > and opens concern from the other. > > A question for Staff. Would a policy in another region that allows transfers, > if a ratio at or above 1:1 basis work? Would that be considered reciprocal?
Kevin - Presently staff considers the reciprocal requirement to require that bidirectional transfers generally available under the other RIRs Inter-RIR transfer policy– i.e. if you meet the specific recipient criteria, then one should generally be able to be a recipient of resources coming from a source located with another RIR. Any requirement for an overall "ratio” would mean that the Inter-RIR transfers policy could no longer be generally relied upon; its applicability to any given transfer request would be based on factors not controlled by the source or recipient organizations. Such a constraint in another RIR’s inter-RIR transfer policy would create a circumstance not covered by our existing 8.4 Inter-RIR policy language, nor raised & addressed in the history of its development, so it is not 100% clear what the community wants ARIN staff to do under such circumstances. We likely would be conservative and notify the community that such a constraint for a 1:1 ratio makes a policy which is not clearly reciprocal, and given that reciprocal is a criteria under which transfers _only_ may occur, such a policy would prevent Inter-RIR transfers from with that RIR community, unless/until revised NRPM policy language is adopted by ARIN community making more clear the appropriate handling of this situation. Thanks! (and I do hope this helps your policy development efforts) /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN _______________________________________________ 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.
