[members-discuss] RIPE NCC Members and Multiple

Hello Claudiu,

Le 18/02/2016 21:23, Claudiu Foleanu a écrit :
> Everyone will do the math before opening a new lir. So the problem will go away!

I can't agree because as explained with the taxi licence analogy, I
think we've shot ourselves in the foot by letting a market establish
itself in the past years - as taxi licence holders did.

It can only lead to ressource pooling and lending by people who will
dedicate themselves to preserving assets rather than improving the
network (IPv6).

We need to think ahead of market tendencies, because restricting the
flow of ressources will raise subnet's imaginary value, draining more
cash (and power) to the bad guys… Unless RIPE NCC is allowed to enforce
strict and regular audits over ressource usage, recover / force transfer
of leased ressources and actively fight squatting.

Making RPKI (progressively) mandatory for every new - non-transferable -
allocations, doing a large-scale sanity check of every past
assignements, and refusing IPv4 allocations while no IPv6 is deployed by
the solicitator (I mean used, not just announced), will be a good start.

RIPE would then be in a position to enforce Best Practices adoption,
which would further help the community to run a more stable inter-network.

I know how hard could such a policy shift be to accept, but I see it as
the only solution to keep the Internet open in the not-so-distant future.

ALAS, the legal challenges here are crucial, because RIPE need to take a
strong position against the faulty logic leading to accountants and
judges value something that is no more than a common agreement over
sharing a virtual numeral space.

It's even harder with the advent of virtual currencies, where this
community's agreement gives value to numbers, where *ours does not*,
never did - appart from the mere tolerance of a transfer platform where
agreed value is secundary - and never should.

Best regards,

-- 
Jérôme Nicolle
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