Hi Marco, > Later, we received new information from both organisations about this > transfer. It was then followed by an official request in which both parties > asked us to revert the changes made to our registry and return the IP > addresses back to their previous holders. After an internal review, we > reverted the registration of the addresses.
Can you give some more details on the fact that policy requirements for holding the resources for 24 months after the transfer was suspended? > While we cannot disclose more details publicly, we would like to emphasise > that we took this action within our mandate to maintain an up-to-date and > correct Internet number resource registry, and as a neutral and impartial > organisation. The last sentence proves that there are rules and there are rules. How the NCC can be a neutral organisation while policy isn't applied to all members in an equal manner? Thank you and have a happy holidays. -- Kind regards, Sergey Myasoedov > On 31 Dec 2019, at 09:28, Marco Schmidt <mschm...@ripe.net> wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > We would like to provide some clarification on this case. > > Earlier this year, we transferred a large number of IP addresses from the > autonomous nonprofit organisation "Russian Scientific-Research Institute for > Public Networks” in the Russian Federation to the Reliable Communications > s.r.o in the Czech Republic. > This change was processed by the RIPE NCC in full compliance with RIPE > Policies and the RIPE NCC’s published procedures. > > Later, we received new information from both organisations about this > transfer. It was then followed by an official request in which both parties > asked us to revert the changes made to our registry and return the IP > addresses back to their previous holders. After an internal review, we > reverted the registration of the addresses. > > While we cannot disclose more details publicly, we would like to emphasise > that we took this action within our mandate to maintain an up-to-date and > correct Internet number resource registry, and as a neutral and impartial > organisation. > > Kind regards and Happy New Year, > > Marco Schmidt > Registration Services and Policy Development Assistant Manager > RIPE NCC > > > On 29/12/2019 06:45, Randy Bush wrote: >>> It would be nice if RIPE NCC could provide as part of its annual >>> report a list of incidents of this nature so we have an idea of how >>> wide-spread this is - or not. >> as i try not to indulge in schadenfreude, i don't have much use for this >> information. >> >> we spent some time in this space in rotterdam. the presos were well >> done, but not my cup of coffee. i am sure there were others who found >> it fascinating. i guess that's what makes the world go 'round. >> >> randy >> > >
