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

Daniel Stolpe wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> 
>> On 25/02/2013 09:56, Daniel Stolpe wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. And when the owners want an update they may be locked in the
>>> process
>>> och showing that they are in fact the right owners. We have a
>>> customer, a
>>> large corporate group that everybody in my country knows about and I
>>> would
>>> even say most people would agree that the original owner of a /16 is now
>>> part of this group and ask no further questions but what
>>> documentation is
>>> there now from a merger in 2000?
>>
>>
>> Probably lots if they were large enough to get a /16.
> 
> 
> Of course their is documentation somewhere.

Not necessarily. In the "old days" quite a bit of networking and address
distribution was done over the phone, on fax or by using non-IP-based
eMail.

One such example /16:
status:         ASSIGNED PI
changed:        porten at mvs.gmd.de 19900816

That's the date when it was possible(!) to register in the RIPE DB.
The address block itself was obtained in the context of an IBM-related
research project. Does anyone expect the current holder and user to
still have a "paper trail"?

Wilfried

> But for a technician to get
> hold of exactly the right paper provning that the entity formerly known
> as A is now a part of the entity B might not be an easy task.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel Stolpe
> 
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