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

On 26/09/2016 23:47, Radu-Adrian Feurdean 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.
I agree with you.  If a legacy owner sells all or part of their legacy
IP space, that IP space should lose its legacy status.

-Hank
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