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

> On 27 Sep 2016, at 16:13, Radu-Adrian Feurdean <ripe-ncc at radu-adrian.feurdean.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016, at 14:08, Carlos Friacas wrote:
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>> The legacy "feature", imho, is attached to address space, not its 
>> "owners"... :-)
> 
> IMHO, it is related to the block as "given" initially from the IANA.
> 
> Btw, are there signed contracts certifying that IANA gave ownership to
> the initial holders, with the possibility to to whatever they want with
> them, forever ? Is there  some copyright or patent on those legacy
> blocks or address space (I know it sounds stupid) ?

Why does this matter? Suppose you could 'prove' those parties are not 'legally' entitled to that space and suppose would claim it back. Then what, start handing out that space and have two parties advertising the space? And suppose you could solve that, then what? We buy ourselves how long? How many /8's do you think you could reclaim? How long do you think a RIR like RIPE NCC would be able to survive on a additional /8?

I'm a relative newbie in the industry compared to some of us, I started in 1997 (@Demon NL) and in those days we already said "we need to move to IPv6 soon". It's now almost 2017, twenty years later. All what I'm hearing here is 'how can we postpone the inevitable". It's useless, it's inevitable, get over it. Migrate to IPv6, ditch IPv4. Forget about the legacy, it's not going to solve your problem. It's only going to postpone them a (very) short while.

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