[members-discuss] M&A procedure

„The M&A procedure is the long and difficult process”

No, you are wrong. It is simple, fast and cheap procedure, especially in the EU. It costs about 500 EUR at all.

Why are you guys always want to hack the transfer policy? If you want more IPV4 resources, buy it on the market, so you do not have to trick and boring everyone with your useless email storm!

Regards:

László Angeli

From: members-discuss <members-discuss-bounces at ripe.net> On Behalf Of IPLab
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 4:09 PM
To: members-discuss at ripe.net
Subject: [members-discuss] M&A procedure

Hi all!

On the 29th of October we received the next email:

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Dear RIPE NCC members,

We would like to inform you of changes relating to transfers due to a
change in business structure (e.g., mergers and acquisitions) as
specified in the new section 3.6 of ripe-709, "Transfer of Internet
Number Resources and Change of a Member’s Official Legal Name”.

Following a resolution at the Executive Board meeting on 7 September,
when an member transfers IPv4 or 16-bit ASNs that are subject to the
transfer restriction due to a change in business structure, the
transferring LIR account needs to remain open until the new 24-month
restriction on transfer of scarce resources has passed. If the receiving
party already holds an LIR account, the LIR account of the transferring
party will become an additional LIR account of the receiving party.

In effect, consolidation of LIR accounts belonging to the same member is
not possible until the 24-month restriction has passed. However, new
24-month restrictions will not be applied to these resources if they are
further transferred between LIR accounts held by the same member after
the initial restrictions have expired. This applies to all resources
transferred between LIR accounts of the same member in all situations.

This change is effective from 7 September 2018.

The section on transfers between LIR accounts belonging to the same
member is available at:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-709#transfer35

The section relating to transfers due to a change in business structure
is available at:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-709#transfer36

The minutes of the 118th Executive Board meeting are available at:
https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2018/draft-minutes-118th-ripe-ncc-executive-board-meeting.
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It means that the M&A (change in business structure) procedure cannot be complete, if the offering party (closed company) received the resources less than 24 months before.

But I don't really understand what for this document was implemented. The M&A procedure is the long and difficult process. More over it doesn't help to circumvent the transfer restriction policies to sell received resources.

If you go to this link
https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-transfers-and-mergers/transfer-statistics/within-ripe-ncc-service-region/ipv4-transfer-statistics
you can see that there are 309 transfers of /22 because of MERGER_OR_ACQUISITION and 3289 /22 transfers because of POLICY. (you can input merger /22 in the SEARCH field and see it by yourself). It is less than 10% from the overall transfer of /22 blocks

If you look at 185./22 transfers, you can see that the number of transfers because of MERGER_OR_ACQUISITION is 270. The total transfers of 185./22 because of POLICY is 1640. It is 14% transfers from the whole volume of transfers of 185./22.

To make my research more visual, I show the 2 tables:

                          Total Transfers of /22
M&A transfers         Policy transfers      % of M&A transfers
     309                           3289                            8.6%

                           Transfers of 185./22
M&A transfers         Policy transfers       % of M&A transfers
     262                            1,638                         14.1%

                                 Total Transfers
M&A transfers           Policy transfers      % of M&A transfers
      945                             8,833                         9.7%

So, as you can see the % of M&A transfers is a little, but the ripe-709 brings many new problems and additional payments to the NCC.

Summarizing I would like to know the members opinion regarding this question. My opinion is that the NCC should refuse ripe-709, especially paragraph 3.6.
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