[anti-abuse-wg] Abuse Report ignored. What to do as next?

On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 14:26, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 01:45:03PM -0700, Leo Vegoda wrote:
> > The RIPE NCC periodically asks the community about the priority for
> > cleaning up unused ASNs, e.g.
> >
> > - https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/active-wg/db/minutes/ripe-52
> > (item G), and
> > - https://ripe82.ripe.net/presentations/7-RIPE82-Feeback-from-RS.pdf (slide 16)
> >
> > So far, the answer has been that it is a low priority. Perhaps because
> > there are about 4 billion left.
>
> Low priority or not, the NCC is spending quite a bit of hostmaster time
> in talking to LIRs and trying to reclaim "looks unused" ASNs.  Guess how
> I know.
>
> "Here's my 50 bucks, I claim I need this for another year" is so much
> less lifetime wasted on all sides.

Sure, but that's a membership decision and not a community decision.