Are you asking why the proposed policy doesn’t effect this change to current 
staff action, or are you asking why staff action didn’t change when they 
started accepting 8.2-based inter-RIR transfers without a policy change?

Owen


> On Sep 30, 2019, at 11:45 , 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. 
> 
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