[address-policy-wg] Hoarding /22 out of 185/8

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:05:55AM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
>* Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se>
>
>> But 2015-01 at least says you need to keep the LIR open for 24 months,
>> correct, meaning you have to pay the yearly LIR fee 3 times (one initial
>> and 2 recurring). At least that was my understanding of the proposal.
>
>Yes, but it only does this for "normal" transfers per ripe-643 section 5.5.
>
>It does not change anything for «Mergers and Acquisitions», because
>that's not regulated in policy, it is an operational procedure made by
>the RIPE NCC.

So it appears I was in error assuming that this proposal affects
M&A - I partially blame ripe-628 in being confusing and mixing
transfers due to M&A and s5.5 transfers in the same doc.

I note though that s3.3 of ripe-628 mandates that the full
membership fee for the transferring member in the year the
transfer takes place in must be paid by the receiving member.
This proposal would, at best, add another year's fee to the cost.

>I'm hoping that the NCC's IA will point out that the M&A loophole
>remains and maybe advise on how we might go about closing it.

Given the above and the not inconsiderable paperwork, I can't but
think that this really is an edge case. I can't think of any way
of closing this without regulating into members' business
decisions, maybe someone else can...

rgds,
Sascha Luck