Hi Aled, On 10.05.2016 14:12, Aled Morris wrote:
I am troubled by the new members joining RIPE purely to obtain IPv4 address space.
Perhaps (shields up!)
that might in fact be a good idea, yes... ;-)
RIPE could simply offer /22 for purchase at the same price as membership (€3,400 i.e. joining fee + 1 year subs) to anyone who wants one since they can get one anyway by joining.
It would save the admin overheads and would identify members as those actually committed to performing as LIRs.
This would actually be PI space then. Apart from this, I'd rather like to have them *WITHIN* the RIPE NCC as a legal entity under Dutch law than somewhere *OUTSIDE*, free floating around and at best only loosely coupled to the RIPE NCC by some T&Cs. My $0.02 - best -C.