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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings all.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have gone to a RIPE broker to obtain IPs that we badly need for upcoming customers. Never having been through this process before I am slightly timid because of the cost of IPs these days, and so the plan is to use escrow.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, my question relates to how to avoid getting my employer to hand out a wad of cash without a clear means to be totally secure that they will be able to use the IPs.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it possible to obtain from RIPE a guaranteed way for the Escrow agent to check with 100% accuracy that the IP transfer has been accepted by RIPE, that we can begin announcing and using the prefix, and that my company is safe to release
money to the seller of the IP addresses?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks very much<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dana<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PS -My apology for not being able to find any previous answer to this in the archives.
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