Am 21.10.2015 um 14:40 schrieb Gert Doering:
Well, the most important reason was that we can't stop transfers from occuring (people will find ways...)
Why not? RIPE is the official register and has to act on each transfer. Of course some might "lease" their space instead, but this puts a significant risk on the user/ customer. I assume many users wouldn't want to take that risk and so the majority of this business is blocked. Together with an enforced return of some percent of assigned ipv4 space every year this would be very effective to push ipv6 adoption significantly.
(Of course one could frown on people making money on something they got for free - yes. But do we want to make money on something by selling under the hand, for a higher price, and no guarantees to the buyer?)
That's why transfer/ selling should be completely forbidden. Corin