[address-policy-wg] question about IPv4 legacy and transfers - should we convert legacy to non-legacy with transfers?

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 05:19:15PM -0400, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 at 17:56, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via address-policy-wg <
> address-policy-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> > What I???m saying is that we force the change of status from non-legacy to
> > legacy if addresses are transferred to a new member or an existing member,
> > as both of them will have all the legal bindings already with RIPE NCC.
> >
> 
> If the goal is to have a correct and updated registry adding criteria by
> force to transfers is counter productive.
> 
> For larger address space transactions this will simply lead to transfer of
> legal entities, or other legal constructs to circumvent the policies.
> 
> I belive the community should focus strongly on an accurate registry as the
> main principle.

One should remember that "the main" is distinct from "the only".

Piotr

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Piotr Strzyżewski
Silesian University of Technology, Computer Centre
Gliwice, Poland