<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr"><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px"></div>This is not correct. Legacy resources are exempt if not in a LIR account/locked (which does NOT prevent sale/changes) and a LIR can in practice hold purchased PA allocations for a single customer as well (under their data/account) at no additional yearly costs.<div><br></div><div>If you trust the LIR you can also just sign a purchase agreement with them, negating any RIPE need at all.<br><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>William Weber<br><br><div></div><br><br><div data-anchor="reply-title">On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 02:23, Sascha Luck [ml] <ripe-md@c4inet.net> wrote:</div><blockquote><div>Gert,<br><br>On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:47:25PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:<br><blockquote>As people join the NCC *only* because it's cheaper to get an IPv4 /22 that way,</blockquote><br><br>You know full well that one has to join the RIPE NCC (or some<br>other RIR) in order to register resources even if bought on the<br>"free market".<br>This argument, on its own, doesn't stand.<br><br>rgds,<br>Sascha Luck<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>members-discuss mailing list<br><a target="_blank" href="mailto:members-discuss@ripe.net">members-discuss@ripe.net</a><br><a target="_blank" href="https://mailman.ripe.net/">https://mailman.ripe.net/</a><br>Unsubscribe: <a target="_blank" href="https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/options/members-discuss/william%40william.si">https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/options/members-discuss/william%40william.si</a></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></body></html>