I guess I need to use a larger font size and/or get new glasses so I can read the emails I'm composing, that should have been "Staff Understanding".
Getting older, sucks!! Also see; https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2019_10/ Sorry for the confusion!! On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 1:45 PM David Farmer <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a question regarding the Staff Understating of the policy from the > Staff and Legal Assessment of the policy, which says the following; > > Staff understands the intent of the draft policy is to clarify handling of > mergers and acquisition transfer processing between RIRs who have > compatible transfer policies. The proposed change would not be a change > from present practice but the policy change would make our implementation > of the current policy clearer. It is understood that IPv6 would be excluded > since this refers to Inter-RIR transfers in which IPv6 is not permitted to > be part of the transfer. > > Where the new policy text says; > > When merger, acquisition, or reorganization activity results in surviving > legal entity that is incorporated outside the ARIN service region, or > focused outside the ARIN service region, or is merging with an organization > that already has a relationship with another RIR, then resources may be > moved to another RIR in accordance with the receiving RIR’s policies. > > So my question is; > > What in the new policy text justifies the exclusion of transfers of IPv6 > resources for Inter-RiR M&A transfers? The new policy text doesn't directly > reference section 8.4 which clearly doesn't include IPv6. However, nothing > explicitly includes IPv6 in section 8.2 for the current Intra-region M&A > transfers, so what excludes them for Inter-RIR M&A transfers? > > While I agree a segment of the community doesn't want there to be > inter-RIR M&A transfers of IPv6, I don't believe that is what this policy > text says. If the community's intent is to clarify the status quo then and > not allow inter-RIR M&A transfers of IPV6, then I believe there needs to be > an explicit exclusion for IPv6 in Internet-RIR M&A transfers. Otherwise, I > believe the text as written includes IPv6 inter-RIR M&A transfers. > > I cannot support this policy as written, either the policy statement needs > to be updated to explicitly exclude IPv6 from inter-RIR M&A or the staff > understating needs to updated to include IPv6 for inter-RIR M&A, because as > it stands, I believe the staff undressing and the policy text are > inconsistent with each other. > > Thank you. > > -- > =============================================== > David Farmer 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 > =============================================== > -- =============================================== David Farmer 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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