Hi, On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 04:40:03PM +0200, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016, at 14:12, Aled Morris wrote: > > I am troubled by the new members joining RIPE purely to obtain IPv4 > > address space. > > > > Perhaps (shields up!) 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. > > Great idea ! > I would actually like to have NCC's opinion on that one. > For now, I have the impression that the administrative overhead is just > a pretext to be able to say "nonono, we DO NOT sell IPv4 addresses".
This is a horrible idea, tbh.
The RIPE NCC is a *membership* organization, so "sell off stuff" is totally
not in line with the NCC's mission of providing numbers to members.
Gert Doering
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