[ncc-services-wg] 2012-07 Discussion Period extended until 21 February 2013 (RIPE NCC Service to Legacy Internet Resource Holders)

> We're all agreed that any talk of renting integers is silly now that the
> standard charging mechanism put an end to that (which makes lots of things
> much simpler actually).  A services fee is appropriate, imo, but I believe
> that this would be better handled via a sponsoring LIR for the same reasons
> that apply to 2007-01.

see my other message on sponsoring lirs
  o not appropriate for a large number of non-r&r lrhs.  tell it to the
    brit gov with their /8, or many industrials with /16s, etc
  o it just increases the same non-contact problem we have with PI

> When 2007-01 became policy, the RIPE NCC originally provided a mechanism
> for a direct relationship and I'll be brutally honest in saying that I was
> horrified when they jacked that price up to the same as the membership
> fee

let's be sure not to let that one happen again

> there aren't big roadblocks to PI end users getting LIR sponsorship
> contracts in place

but we do not know the real identity of those hiding behind lirs.  would
you want to certify them?

randy