<html><body><style type="text/css">  </style><div id='d_1589343813427' style="font-family:Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size:11.0pt; color:#025E14"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Since ipv4 will run out one way or another, the short version is that RIPE/membership has decided not to waste resources aggressively reclaiming ipv4 (and only stay certain execution a short time), but to put those towards getting ipv6 adopted.</p> <br> <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Ipv4 is left to the market (the profiteers), so buying/selling & renting/leasing space one has acquired legitimately is allowed. </p> <br> <div id="signature-x" style="-webkit-user-select:none; font-family:Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size:11.0pt; color:#025E14"><html><head></head><body class="airwise"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:11.0pt;">-- <br>Regards,<br> Terrence Koeman, PhD/MTh/BPsy<br> Darkness Reigns (Holding) B.V.<br><br>Please quote relevant replies.<br>Spelling errors courtesy of my 'smart'phone.</span><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:9.0pt;"><br></span></body></html></div></div><div class="quoted_separate_body"/><div id="quoted_header" style="clear:both;"><hr style="border:none; height:1px; color:#E1E1E1; background-color:#E1E1E1;"/><div style="border:none; padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Bill Lewis <Bill.lewis@kijoma.co.uk><br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 13 May 2020 05:11<br><b>To:</b> members-discuss@ripe.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [members-discuss] Mass emailing towards LIRs contacts, from a Board candidate<br></span></div></div><br type='attribution'><div id="quoted_body"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Hi, <br> <br> Not getting this at least but have had an email from a company that leases IP4 space, sent to the email address used for our Ripe account (not on any of our IP records). <br> <br> Apparently has /22 blocks they would like to rent out, surely unused blocks should be in Ripe's hands, not profiteers? <br> <br> just a thought and how they gained the email address too. Anybody else had this? <br> <br> Bill <br> <br> On 08/05/2020 07:53, Benjamin Collet wrote: <br> > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 08:57:28AM +0200, Clement Cavadore wrote: <br> >> I have received multiple times (to many of the LIRs I manage contact <br> >> emails), this night, an e-mail coming from a RIPE NCC Board candidate, <br> >> who promotes his candidacy. Be his candidacy admissible and decent or <br> >> not, is not the point. But, is that kind of mass-mailing correct ? <br> > I also got this email (have a guess whom it was from…). I believe this <br> > kind of mass-mailing is in direct violation of article 4 - section 4 of <br> > RIPE DB terms and conditions <br> > (https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/documentation/terms). <br> > <br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________ <br> members-discuss mailing list <br> members-discuss@ripe.net <br> https://mailman.ripe.net/ <br> Unsubscribe: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/options/members-discuss/terrence%40darkness-reigns.com <br> </p> </blockquote></div></body></html>