[rpd] SL update policy, and its implication for a transition pool.

[Gregoire EHOUMI]

Hi Nishal,

Sorry fo the late answer.


> Le 2 déc. 2018 à 16:40, Nishal Goburdhan <nishal at controlfreak.co.za> a écrit :
> 
> hi,
> 
> i have a question for the authors of the “SL update policy”.  i’ve been told before that there isn’t a “transition only” pool set aside specifically, because this is supposed to be one of those things that was magically dealt with, “out of the /12”.

Told by who? And how would that magic happen?
	
Beyond the phases, the soft landing policy does not have a provision for a transition pool.The /12 is reserved for unforeseen future. And section 5.7.4.2 gives authority to board at its discretion to decide on how to replenish  the exhaustion pool when AFRINIC can no longer meet allocation requests.

>  with your update the option to do this disappears.  and i don’t see another place for this  (although it’s quite possible that i’m missing something)
> 
> is this intentional?

The best way to do this is to propose a policy to explicitly define a transition pool and not depend on any magic, if transition-only is needed.

An attempt to set a dedicated transition-only pool was rejected with SL-bis.

> 
> fwiw, i support the _intent_ of the policy;  however, i do not think that this (the lack of a transition pool) was raised as a concern, if the update to SL was adopted as proposed.  i would have expected this, from the staff analysis.

Staff understanding of the proposal is correct, and as the proposal does not revoke any specific transition-only pool, I don't see why staff will ring the bell.

>  (i am sure there might be more concerns too, if folks sat down and though about them…)
> 
> to be clear, i’m not asking for this to be included in your policy.  just that a more thorough analysis be done.
> 
> —n.
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All concerns should be raised now. Cochairs decided that the proposal needed more discussions in Hamammet. So please let's discuss any issue or concern, you may have.

—Gregoire

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