On 15.07.2019 14:02, Tore Anderson wrote: > You could make the opposite argument too, i.e., that it would be unfair > behaviour by the RIPE community to try and retroactively annex legacy space > in this way by unilaterally applying terms and conditions that were never > agreed to in the first place.
Just as a reminder, this actually was done with ripe-452, when space that was handed out in 1993 under the new RIR regime, much later dubbed "PI", got strings attached retroactively: "According to policy detailed in ripe-452 […], a company holding Internet number resources must sign an End User Assignment Agreement with a Local Internet Registry (LIR) of their choice, or with the RIPE NCC directly by becoming a RIPE NCC member (LIR)". Thus there is precedence for "unilaterally applying terms and conditions that were never agreed to in the first place" by the RIPE Community; this happened in 2009 and was applied to address space handed out up to 16 years prior to any such terms and conditions. As for Jordi's approach, I agree with »don't fix it if it ain't broken«, and in terms of Legacy space I fail to see an issue in current policy. Regards, -kai
