new swamp ?

Hi there,

> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 02:54:38PM +0000, Andre Stiphout wrote:
> > What is the position of the RIPE NCC/RIPE community on the address space
> > of a SP that disappears from the net? Is there a clear statement
> > somewhere describing that all of the SP PA-space needs to be returned
> > within x months to RIPE?
> "Usually" the LIR in question gets bought (so there is somebody who
> gets the allocation and is "responsible" for the PA now), but I don't
> know what happens if the LIR disappears completely.

The situation is a little more difficult than that because in this case
LIR
	includes more than one
autonomous system
	includes one or more
legal entity

So "buying the LIR" probably means buying the whole company, whereas buying
a legal entity in some country does not buy the LIR (though there is hope
to get the addresses out of the LIR in that case).

It might be a good idea to create something like special PA space owned by RIPE
(all things considered, that is the case anyway [check the /16... ahem...])
and let some customers run off with their >=/24 PA address space.
However, that doesn't really help those customers with sub-/24 assignments.

Bernard Steiner
Connecting Europe 1982-2002, myself on the net since 1988