[governance] NTIA statement on IP addressing - broadly supportive of RIRs

[John Curran]

On Dec 4, 2012, at 2:31 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> And I would think it good it this particular model was reviewed for something more fitting to the current realties and needs.  This is no longer 1993 or the age of RFC 1518.

Agreed. Presently, we're up to about 1996, i.e. age of RFC 2050,
and specifically with respect to ARIN, we allow transfers to 
recipients within the ARIN region, as well as to recipients 
who are in another region.  Transfer policy does reflect the 
"documented need" principles expressed in RFC2050:

"7.  The transfer of IP addresses from one party to another must be
     approved by the regional registries.  The party trying to obtain
     the IP address must meet the same criteria as if they were
     requesting an IP address directly from the IR."

I don't know whether this approach is good or bad, but do know
that it has received extensive discussion both online and in 
many of ARIN's public policy meetings, and in the end was deemed
to be supported by the community.  Discussions subsequent to the
ARIN's original transfer policy have enjoyed even more participation 
from those in the legacy community and emerging address broker 
community, with the result being changes to consider longer need-
assessment horizons (and therefor supporting transfer of larger 
address blocks) as well as the change to allow Inter-RIR transfers.

While I won't judge the resulting policy, I will say that the 
overall multistakeholder policy development process seems to 
working fairly well with respect to discussions of incremental
change.  I harbor a concern that incremental change may be the
only type of change that open multistakeholder deliberations 
can actually support, as the discussions of more revolutionary 
changes seem to inevitably jump to more authoritarian questions
such as "who is charge", "who can approve this", etc.  This is 
a topic worth thinking about in general about MS governance 
processes.

/John

Disclaimer: I am the President and CEO of ARIN, although 
the observations made above are solely my own based on 
my experiences to date and do not represent any formal 
position of the organization.


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