[members-discuss] Executive Board Resolution on Legacy Internet Resource Holders

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016, at 17:16, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> Acquiring small bits of legacy IP space to bypass LIR membership dues
> and to then be entitled to get more IP address space goes totally
> against the spirit of RIPE and I totally approve the Executive Board's
> decision and would recommend even further sanctions against those that
> have done it.

Could someone remind us why in the first place:
 - a legacy block can be broken into smaller pieces (which can then be
 transferred)
 - after the transfer, the parts of the old legacy block still remain
 tagged as legacy
 - what stops the "convert to PA" (or PI, whatever) from being a
 prerequisite to a transfer (or even to a split of the original legacy
 block)
 - more generally why the stance of "giving full rights to legacy
 holders", but with only voluntary respect of the obligations

I can understand that a legacy space holder can keep the space
"received" before the existence of the NCC, but not the fact that others
can acquire that kind of space and pretend to the same treatment.

-- 
Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN