[members-discuss] [comms-circle] Re: [ncc-announce] [GM] Executive Board Meeting to Discuss Charging Scheme Input from Members

hi,

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 06:23:53PM +0200, Mentor Leniqi via members-discuss wrote:
> Exactly that!
> And RIPE it is the only RIR who allowed multiLIR accounts, we can see a
> person/entity with more than 20 lir accounts hoarding the IPv4 space and
> only purpose is to lease out not using it by himself! The benefit,
> of course, is RIPE from signup fees, and membership fees without thinking
> that after 2 years they merge them into one LIR account and hold the
> resource. Not sure that RIPE staff was thinking of doing/allowing such a
> policy in which the budget for RIPE NCC was short term and not long term!

Oh, please.  This was all very well known and very well understood.

It was clear that people were trying to make as much money as they could
out of the last /22s given out, so we made the policy as restrictive as
we could (and I've been called bad names because of that) - but it was
clear as well that the NCC has one primary goal, which is "accuracy of
the registry".

So if the board hadn't permitted multiple LIR accounts, people would have
just opened shell companies (UK Ltd can be founded for a few pounds), so
they had "independent legal entities", the addresses would have been
requested anyway, *and* the database accuracy would have been worse.

This is all in the public archives of this list and the address policy
WG list.

Gert Doering
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