selling PA as PI

Dear Bogdan,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
The RIPE NCC has an auditing service that we provide to the 
community. The auditing activity was set in place to promote the 
consistent and fair application of IP Address policies.

The activity is focused around helping the LIRs to understand and 
follow the correct policies and procedures. The RIPE NCC will first 
discuss the issue with the LIR involved and outline the correct 
policies and procedure.

Most audits are done by random selection, but there is also the 
possibility of requesting an audit. LIRs can approach the RIPE NCC if 
they suspect that another LIR is violating the address policies set 
in place by the Internet community.

For more information about the Audit Activity, please refer to:

http://www.ripe.net/rs/audit/   and

RIPE Document: "RIPE NCC Consistency and Auditing Activity" at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/auditing.html

As you already know, IP Addresses are not to be considered property 
as stated in RIPE Document:" Charging by Local Internet Registries":

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-152.html

Again, thank you for bringing this to our attention. The RIPE NCC 
will look into the matter and contact the LIR in question.

For any other issues of this kind, please write to <lir-help at ripe.net>
.

Kind regards,

Nurani


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| Nurani Nimpuno                     |
| Internet Address Policy Manager    |
| RIPE Network Co-ordination Centre  |
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 Bogdan Surdu <tim at rdsnet.ro> writes:
 * 
 *    Hi,
 * 
 *  I'm working for a ISP in Romania which is also a LIR. The biggest 
LIR in
 * Romania RNC (ro.rnc) received a /15 PA block from RIPE last month. 
They
 * are selling prefixes (yes selling, they charge different amounts 
for differe
 * nt
 * space: $50 for a /28 up to $230 for a /24) to almost anyone who 
wants IPs,
 * even they are not connected to RNC. Basically they sell the PA 
space as
 * PI, since they are not advertising the PA block and the prefixes 
are
 * announced in Internet by other ISPs.
 *  80.96/15 is not the only block sold as PI space, they have many PA
 * blocks distributed to customers connected to other ISPs (for 
example our
 * customers have about 60 * /24 prefixes from 217.156/17 PA block 
allocated
 * to RNC).
 *  What can we do to stop this practice?
 * 
 * 
 * inetnum:      80.96.0.0 - 80.97.255.255
 * netname:      RO-RNC-20010705
 * descr:        National Institute for R|&D in Informatics
 * descr:        Provider Local Registry
 * country:      RO
 * admin-c:      ES16
 * tech-c:       CH7396-RIPE
 * status:       ALLOCATED PA
 * mnt-by:       RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
 * mnt-lower:    AS3233-MNT
 * mnt-routes:   AS3233-MNT
 * changed:      hostmaster at ripe.net 20010705
 * source:       RIPE
 * 
 * 
 * --
 * Bogdan Surdu
 * 
 * Romania Data Systems S.A.
 * E-mail: tim at rdsnet.ro
 * Tel: +40 1 30 10 850
 * Fax: +40 1 30 10 851
 * 
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