On 9 okt 2008, at 15:16, <michael.dillon@bt.com> <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
Because if the company is sleeping, then RIPE could reclaim the addresses. The basis of RIPE allocations is that the LIR demonstrates a technical need for the addresses. Note that ARIN is currently discussing how to handle review and reclamation procedures. I believe that it would be better for RIPE to reject all transfer policies and to focus our effort on review and reclamation policies.
As much as I like the idea of more scrutiny on resource holders and especially on those who are asking for more. I do think it will be hard to accomplish. We might get away with a tighter policy on new allocations, but you can't really change the rules after the game has been played, so reclaiming address blocks from current holders might get hard. A more direct pointer to the arin proposal, or a short summary would be welcome (is it 2007-14 ?) as we could see if it can be adopted by us and we can draft a ripe proposal in the same directions. I think in general, as we are getting close to the 'end of the world' it is a good thing to keep polices between RIR's largely the same to prevent organisations to go shopping between RIR's to find the one with the most relaxed ruleset. Groet, MarcoH