Hi Ronald,
First, among these seven completed non-financial member terminations, can you state how many of those cases involved members who were or are "natural persons"? We can confirm that of these seven terminations, none involved members who were natural persons. In your opinion, would it be accurate to say that following the termination of one of these RIPE Standard Service Agreements RIPE NCC does not have any sort of ongoing "duty of care" with respect to the terminated member, I mean, you know, AFTER the termination? (I do not see anything in Section 9 that calls for any kind of ongoing duty which is binding upon either party, after termination of The Agreement, but perhaps I just missed something.) In accordance with article 9.5 of the Standard Service Agreement, when a membership is terminated we cease providing any RIPE NCC services and begin the deregistration procedure according to section B. of “Closure of Members, Deregistration of Internet Resources and Legacy Internet Resources”. Once the resources have been deregistered, we have no further contact or relationship with them and neither party has any ongoing duty to the other*.
You can find the “Closure of Members, Deregistration of Internet Resources and Legacy Internet Resources” document here: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-640 Kind regards Ingrid Wijte Registration Services Assistant Manager RIPE NCC *Beyond outstanding financial obligations in the case of non-payment of membership fees.