Hi John, Tore, and Steve, Thanks for your excellent dialog to seek compatibility between the ARIN and RIPE inter-RIR transfer policies.

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Actually, that is not clear, as ARIN's Inter-RIR transfer policy language requires that an RIR have needs-based policy in order to be compatible for transfers to/from ARIN, and having solely a reference to the another RIR's policy could be argued (by some) to not be actual needs-based policy for RIPE.

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Specific needs-based language in RIPE's policy would be much cleaner, as well as having RIPE NCC implementing something defined by the RIPE community rather than criteria that may change at any time without RIPE community involvement.

Understood, the requirement is for needs based language specifically in the RIPE policy, that is independent of the other RIR's policy. How about: "For transfers from RIR regions which require the RIPE region to have needs-based policies, recipients must provide a plan to the RIPE NCC for the use of at least 50% of the transferred resources within 5 years." Is this a needs based policy that is compatible with ARIN's requirement? Thanks Sandra