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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br>
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      On 29/03/15 20:21, Gert Doering wrote:<br>
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      <pre wrap="">Hi,
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    [...]<br>
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Don't believe or assume, just ask the people that bring something forward,
instead of publically claiming some underlying reason that is not there.

2007-01 and the various followup discussions have never been about money
(either way).</pre>
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    Ok, maybe I'm just thinking too far and/or assuming some things that
    are only in my head.<br>
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        <pre wrap="">I also think we should forget about garbage collection in ASN16 because 
it will never happen. If companies/LIRs ever decide to hand ASN16 back, 
it's only because they want to, nobody will be able to 'force' them, 
either by adding a fee to the ASN or by chasing them when the ASN is not 
in use.
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Well, I know for sure that the at least one AS holder (me) returned his 
AS "from the early days of RIPE" because he couldn't be bothered to pay 
50 EUR/year "just to have it" when it wasn't used any longer (of course
I could have *afforded* it, but the nuisance factor was way too high).  

So it worked.
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    Well, as I said, I have been working with some customers on M&As
    or transfers where they have taken over networks/IP blocks and did
    not need the ASNs. Some of those ASNs have been returned.<br>
    So, it does work, and not only if a 50E/year fee is added to each
    ASN. Some still do the right thing while others will see the value
    in a finite number.<br>
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Don't look at everything purely from the angle of "how can people make 
the most money out of numbers".</pre>
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    Nowadays, with the experience of IPv4, everyone will look at numbers
    at a method to making money, especially if these numbers finite and
    depleted. I doubt holders of ASNs will return them to the NCC if
    they could make a buck.<br>
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Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
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    cheers,<br>
    Elvis<br>
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    PS: the brokerage business has changed how I see things. two years
    ago I would have said: hey, it's not use, return it, do the right
    thing; now I'm saying: hey, there's money to be made.<br>
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