Hi,

does this include all legacy resources with no contract or does it exclude all legacy holders without a contract, that have them in their RIPE LIR account?

If you find ones where the holding entity does not exist anymore and they are not announced, please return them to IANA, even though it's been a while since the last return the policy is still standing and I'm convinced that a least a bunch of /24 could be recovered: https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-recovered-address-space/ipv4-recovered-address-space.xhtml

Thanks

Max

On 17 March, 2026 15:25 CET, Marco Schmidt <mschmidt@ripe.net> wrote:

 

Dear colleagues,

At RIPE 91, I presented the idea that the RIPE NCC would contact the 
roughly 1,600 legacy resource holders who currently have no contractual 
relationship with either the RIPE NCC or a sponsoring LIR. [1]

While the policy “RIPE NCC Services to Legacy Internet Resource Holders” 
[2] does not require a contractual relationship to be in place, this 
creates challenges in terms of data accuracy. For many of these 
resources, the holdership and contact details are outdated, unclear, or 
missing. This makes it difficult to  contact the resource holder and 
process updates, and increases the risk of disputes or misuse.

To address this, we will soon begin contacting legacy resource holders 
based on the available registration information. Once we have verified 
their status, we will add a co-maintained organisation object to their 
resources in the RIPE Database. This will clearly identify the resource 
holder and ensure that any future updates involve the RIPE NCC and are 
similarly verified.

This step will improve registration accuracy, reduce the risk of misuse, 
and bring these resources closer in line with how other resources are 
maintained in the RIPE Database.

We aim to complete this activity by October 2026. In cases where we are 
unable to verify holdership , we will add an organisation object with an 
anonymised name to indicate that this is currently unverified. This can 
be updated later at any time once verification becomes possible.

Legacy resource holders without a contract who would like to prioritise 
verification can contact us at legacy@ripe.net.

We will update you on the progress of this work in the coming months.

Kind regards,
Marco Schmidt
Manager Registration Services
RIPE NCC


[1] https://ripe91.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/sessions/40/FJ7YSH/
[2] https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-639/

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