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

On 28.04.2015 16:15, Sergiusz Paprzycki wrote:
> On 28/04/15 13:02, Alex Le Heux wrote:
>> Alternatively, members could petition the RIPE NCC board to raise the New
>> LIR sign-up fee to 10 or 15 times the current level. That should stop
>> this
>> in its tracks as well and would still not be a huge barrier to new
>> entrants.
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> Is this really a solution??? I am quite convinced that this will also
> stop _a lot_ of legitimate companies from becoming LIRs.. RIPE region
> covers area with very different economical landscapes. €20,000 (or even
> €30,000) is not a small sum for a start-up in the "rich" side of the
> region, at the same time it is very prohibitive sum not only for
> start-up on the "not so rich" side.
> 
I fully agree with Sergiusz... I think the policy should maybe be
adjusted in a way that the only legitimate reason for taking over
IP-space is taking over existing customers and continue the service
which is running on the IP-Space.

The normal procedure of closing a LIR must be withdrawing all resources
assigned to that LIR and only if you can present good arguments why a
renumbering of customers is not possible, you might keep the
address-space. I mean, I also needed to renumber my about 2000 used
IPv6-PI addresses when I became LIR as I had to return the IPv6-PI (I
know, now there's a proposal on the way to stop that for V6, but that's
different thing).



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