[ncc-services-wg] legacy holders paying for registration services and 2012-07v2

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:16:14AM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> The flip side of this argument could be taken as: this holder's interest in
>> maintaining their /16 (i.e. probably infrastructure which is very important
>> to their business) is so small that in a period of 13 years, they couldn't
>> be bothered spending a couple of hours updating the registry details for it.
>
> If everything works, why would they need to even think about it?
>
> Like: still using the same AS to announce it, still using the same set
> of nameservers - so there was never a need to update anything due to
> "things not working on the technical side", so I can see why no updates
> have ever done...

You are on the right path here. The sudden need for updates was caues by a 
request to change name servers.

And it's not 13 years. They got the /16 in 1990. :-)

> Our /16 PA allocation is from 1996, and all the updates on the inetnum:
> are hostmaster at ripe.net in 2002, 2004 and 2010 - and I'd bet all but one
> of these have been automated due to RIPE DB structural changes.  The route:
> object is unchanged since 2002, since *there have not been any changes*.
>
> So I'm not sure why a PI /16 holder would have more need for updates,
> if nothing changed...

Exactly.

Regards,

Daniel Stolpe

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