* John Curran
I will reiterate for avoidance of any doubt and to bring this back to the topic at hand: the RIPE community should feel free set any transfer policy that applies to resources in its region, but I'd recommend against developing policy based on a belief that ARIN policies don't apply to all resources in the ARIN region, as the outcome will not match expectations.
Hi John, Let me reassure you that 2013-03 was not written with any particular understanding of ARIN's "jurisdiction" in mind, one way or the other. 2013-03 doesn't really concern itself with extra-region matters. The "legal" status of legacy space and how the RIRs should deal with it is certainly an interesting topic, and not only in the ARIN region; such a discussion is ongoing in the RIPE region too, cf. proposal 2012-07. However, I consider that this topic is not really germane to the discussion of 2013-03. Fortunately, I have not seen anyone making arguments in favour of, or in opposition to, 2013-03 based on an opinion of the status of legacy space in the ARIN region. So I don't think we have anything to worry about in this regard - the PDP can handle the discussion of a proposal side-tracking into off-topic topics once in a while. After all, this is a public mailing list, so I don't think we can expect anything else. :-) Best regards, -- Tore Anderson