Hi All, I object this proposal. You know, in ex-USSR and especially Asian countries there is a VERY difficult (for small companies and NGOs that are main PI holders - sometime impossible at all) to have contracts and payments outside country. Instead of that, I propose just to change the billing scheme of LIRs and score PI and ASN by a very small rate (i.e. 1 scoring unit) next years after registration. This will have LIRs to maintain agreements with end-users and have end-users to return unused PI/ASN to RIPE. In this case, all contracts and money transfers will be domestic for PI/ASN holders. Filiz Yilmaz wrote:
PDP Number: 2007-01 Direct Internet Resource Assignments to End Users from the RIPE NCC
Dear Colleagues
A new RIPE Policy Proposal has been made and is now available for discussion.
This proposal states that a contractual relationship between an End User and the RIPE NCC must be established before the End User receives Internet number resources (Autonomous System (AS) Number, Provider Independent (PI) IPv4 and IPv6 Internet Exchange Point (IXP) and anycasting assignments) directly from the RIPE NCC. It also states that the text in the policy should mention more explicitly that PI assignments can't be sub-assigned.
You can find the full proposal at:
http://ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-01.html
We encourage you to review this proposal and send your comments to <address-policy-wg@ripe.net> before 17 May 2007.
Regards
Filiz Yilmaz RIPE NCC Policy Development Officer
-- WBR, Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253@FIDO)