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

Let's think of that for arguments sake.

According to IANA 92 /8's are listed as Legacy.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml

Now this is obviously at the /8 level, agreements have been made for 
various small subsets of this, but at the end of the day. Do you really 
think it would be that hard for the legacy address holders to simply 
decide to create their own market place, and ARIN/RIPE equivalent that 
falls under less strict rules?

For any of these companies, it could be a trivial under taking to allow 
them to reap the rewards of splitting and selling their legacy space.
No contract exists, that says any of the RIR's hold legal ownership or 
control over most legacy space, so what truly prevents them from getting 
together and not even worrying about RIPE or the rest of the RIR's... 
basically nothing but their own time and effort.



On 09/27/2016 06:37 AM, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> On Tue Sep 27, 2016 at 12:23:07pm +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Why?  And how?  How could e.g. a RIPE or other RIR policy be used to
>> implement this when by admission of all, RIR policies do not apply to
>> legacy space?
> They can't - but they can refuse to provide the "free" RIR services to anyone
> other than either the original legacy allocation holder, or the current holder
> of the entire original legacy allocation. If you buy or lease a portion of
> the legacy address space, then as far as the RIRs are concerned, you should
> not be given any special treatment.
>
> Simon
>
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