[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [news] Board Resolution to Suspend Creation of Multiple LIR Accounts

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 05:05:01PM +0000, Erik Bais wrote:
>Have a look in the database ..  take for instance :  the ORG ID's that start with :  ORG-NGSL<insert number here between 3 to 27>-RIPE
>
>Each is their own LIR ... each has requested a /22 ...  23 entries in total ...   (http://pastebin.com/tZvm3WhU )

Interesting. At a cost of ~EUR83,000 (at 2015 rates) that is some
expensive ipv4 space. /18 + /19 if I calculate correctly.

>This is a very clear example that it is not a single occurrence of creating just an LIR extra, but a planned and executed setup, that was not in line with the intent of the policy of the final /8 policy.

Pretty blatant, granted. I wonder (and worry), however, just how
far the "intent" of a policy -made, theoretically, by anyone
with and internet connection- can be allowed to reach into how members can
conduct their business? Especially if this is affecting the
affairs of 12k members in order to allay some fears that someone
might abuse the rules to ration the last scraps of a legacy
protocol.
The next obvious loophole is that one could create a dozen
limited companies (depending on the jurisdiction this is an
exercise in bureaucracy rather than very expensive) and open one
LIR each, then one "buys" all the others. Will this, then, be
banned too? Any other restrictions on what legal form a LIR can
take or what business transactions are allowed? I would like to
know what to plan for and whether to even stay in the Internet
business.

rgds,
Sascha Luck