<html><head><style id="axi-htmleditor-style" type="text/css">p { margin: 0px; }</style></head><body dir="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: fixed;">Well the RIPE pay for a legal counsel isn't that great, so they probably aiming for a junior.<div><br></div><div>As for the 'affair', legal wheels turn slowly, so most likely RIPE wasn't directly involved, so most likely 'Soldatov' was pressured into returning the ip-space as he is also co-owner of the Czech company. Looks like it was a two prong approach, sell/give the ip-space to a Czech company and use that vehicle to sell the ip-space for a profit. Money then is outside Putins hands, also no problems with 'sanctions' etc. But then again what do I know.<br><div class="x-axi-signature"><br><div class="x-axi-signature" style="; font-size: 10pt; font-family: " source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;"="">-- <div>IDGARA | Alex de Joode | +31651108221</div></div></div><br>On Sat, 28-12-2019 20h 09min, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin-left: 10px; padding-left: 10px; border-left: 1px solid #ccc;"><div style="font-family: " source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 10pt;"="">> How these things slip through is when paperwork gets submitted that is<br>> incorrect and falsified with fake signatures.<br><br>and the ncc has a job advert out to hire even more lawyers (no blame;<br>it's a mess). can ripe keep from becoming arin?<br><br>randy<br><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>