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

So you own a piece of land and want to sell a small part of that land to
someone, so you agree on a price, sign a contract, pay VAT on the
transaction, and now the land sold more belongs to the buyer. Contract law
101.

Now let's apply your logic: so you own a piece of land and want to sell a
small piece of that land to someone, so you agree on a price, sign a
contract, pay VAT on the transaction, and now the land belongs to someone
else who the buyer now leases it of for a fee.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that would make sense to a
lawyer.

-Tim

On 26 Sep 2016 10:48 p.m., "Radu-Adrian Feurdean" <
ripe-ncc at radu-adrian.feurdean.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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