[address-policy-wg] Revised 2007-01 moved back to Review Period (Direct Internet Resource Assignments to End Users from the RIPE NCC)

> The same should apply to already given out PI space, though I do
> understand the problem of contacting owners of some ancient PI
> registrations - but maybe some legal advocate could point out whether
> the requirement to have your RIPE db data up to date could be used as a
> basis to reclaim IP space from people that can't be contacted and whose
> space isn't in the global routing tables ...

Just for the record (and to show that the Board/RIPE NCC isn't asleep on
the job) we are taking legal advice on the best way to go about framing
the contact/contract with existing PI address holders if/when 2007-01
reaches consensus. If the legal advice is that there is no realistic way
to do this, then we will of course report back to the apwg.

I have to record, from a personal point of view that I feel very nervous
about going back to existing PI holders and asking them to sign a
contract. Whilst accepting all the arguments that this is a good thing,
and allows us to garbage collect dead space, I can still see troubles ahead.

However, man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.... we will
plan as best we can.

Nigel