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

Nick Hilliard wrote:

> On 05/02/2013 07:55, Randy Bush wrote:
[...]
> Removal of some registration data as a short term prospect: e.g. drop DNS
> server entries.  Again, I think this is unnecessarily aggressive.

Not only "unnecessarily aggressive" but potentially destructive to the RIR
system.

There's an organisation out there, which tried to go down that road, a while
ago, with ccTLDs as targeted victims. It became pretty noisy, pretty quickly,
and would have had a major impact on the administration of the root zone...

I definitely know, that there are parties out there, which would be more
than happy to get their feet into the pool and to offer such services to
LRHs for free, at least for a loooong time. I fear that such a move would
break quite some stuff that we got to enjoy and would like to perserve for
the future of the numbers registries.

> Time limited amnesty: free registration for X period of time if you engage
> within Y period.  Or some other carrot.
> 
> Free-for-all-time-for-everyone: as irresponsible as short-term deregistration.

I am not sure that this statement would hold.

You semm to be ignoring that many of those LRHs (early adopters and
developers) were spending quite a big amount of money to start and to
develop the IPv4-based Internet. The same one that quite a few of us
take for granted these days and making money with ;-)

Thus I do not consider continuation of providing a (proportionally really
cheep) service for them as "irresponsible". Actually this same service has
been offered for more than 20 years and the community didn't scream :-)

Wilfried