Some short questions about this policy: 1. What does this policy do that a globalized transfer policy would not do faster, better and with less overhead? 2. Is this policy proposal motivated by the asymmetry in RIR's transfer policies? (e.g., the failure of ARIN to adopt a transfer policy despite North Am. being where most of the unused v4 space is) 3. In regards to Remco's statement:

The current policy between IANA and the RIRs for allocating IPv4 will become unusable once IANA runs out. We need a new policy that keeps the structure between IANA and RIRs in place and gives IANA something useful to do.

Why should we care about "keeping the structure between IANA and RIRs in place?" (not a rhetorical question, really want to know) 4. Did anyone answer Heather's excellent question:

If address space is returned to an RIR, and they have an immediate need for that space, can they assign it? or *must* they wait for the quarterly interval and return it to IANA?

Milton Mueller Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology ------------------------------ Internet Governance Project: http://internetgovernance.org