On 28.04.2015 16:15, Sergiusz Paprzycki wrote: > On 28/04/15 13:02, Alex Le Heux wrote: >> Alternatively, members could petition the RIPE NCC board to raise the New >> LIR sign-up fee to 10 or 15 times the current level. That should stop >> this >> in its tracks as well and would still not be a huge barrier to new >> entrants. > > Hi Alex, > > Is this really a solution??? I am quite convinced that this will also > stop _a lot_ of legitimate companies from becoming LIRs.. RIPE region > covers area with very different economical landscapes. €20,000 (or even > €30,000) is not a small sum for a start-up in the "rich" side of the > region, at the same time it is very prohibitive sum not only for > start-up on the "not so rich" side. > I fully agree with Sergiusz... I think the policy should maybe be adjusted in a way that the only legitimate reason for taking over IP-space is taking over existing customers and continue the service which is running on the IP-Space.
The normal procedure of closing a LIR must be withdrawing all resources assigned to that LIR and only if you can present good arguments why a renumbering of customers is not possible, you might keep the address-space. I mean, I also needed to renumber my about 2000 used IPv6-PI addresses when I became LIR as I had to return the IPv6-PI (I know, now there's a proposal on the way to stop that for V6, but that's different thing). -- Opteamax GmbH - RIPE-Team Jens Ott Opteamax GmbH Simrockstr. 4b 53619 Rheinbreitbach Tel.: +49 2224 969500 Fax: +49 2224 97691059 Email: [email protected] HRB: 23144, Amtsgericht Montabaur Umsatzsteuer-ID.: DE264133989
