Ownerless PI Revokation, was Re: [address-policy-wg] Revised 2007-01...

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:15:35 +0100, Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:

> It merely states that new and continued registration of certain types of  
> provider independent address resources is contingent on entering into a  
> direct or indirect contractual relationship with the RIPE NCC.

	IMHO, it would be useful to include that statement in (or even instead of)
	the "Summary" at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-01.html.

	Moreover, the following text (flagged "ADDITION TO DOCUMENT >>" in
	http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/ripe-424-draft-2007-01-v3.html)
	needs a heading of its own as its context is clearly wider than what the
	heading "End Users requesting PI space should be given this or a similar
	warning" suggests.
	
The policies stated above about the PI address space covers all non PA  
address
space maintained in the RIPE database, except address space marked as Early
Registration (ERX) and address space marked as NON-SET.

The RIPE community has requested that the RIPE NCC to take necessary steps  
to
make sure that this is realised. In cases where the RIPE NCC cannot locate  
the
End User that is a PI address space assignee within 3 months, the address  
space
will be returned to the RIPE NCC pool and and made available for  
re-assignment
to other End Users.

	IIRC, this incongruity was already pointed (not by me) out at some stage
	during RIPE 56.

	I can't help feeling that the intention to apply the new policy
	retro-actively is being understated.  This very much isn't something
	that should be finessed, but rather needs to be made abundantly clear.

	VBR,
	Niall O'Reilly