I totally agree with the AS number situation. When I worked for RCS&RDS we acquired many companies and although we kept some AS numbers, it really makes no sense in putting a 24 months lock on them.
Ciprian On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, Plesa Niculae <nicu...@plesa.ro> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Regarding the [address-policy-wg] 2015-04 New Version and Impact Analysis > Published (RIPE Resource Transfer Policies): > > The supposed purpose of the policy was to organise more efficiently, in a > single document, the rules regarding transfer of resources but it brings a > restriction which has not been properly analysed and debated. In my opinion > there are many cases when two ISPs would merge. Due to the restructuring > after the merger it is likely that the IPs could be used more efficiently > and the resulting company would have spare resources that could be > transferred like one of the AS numbers and maybe some IPs. If both > companies have received the IPs and AS numbers many years ago, why should > they not be able to transfer the resulting unused resources after the > merger ? There is no logical point in that. Maybe there would not result > some unused IPs but at least there is a 100% certainty that one of the AS > numbers would become useless. This policy would force the company to keep > it for 24 months just because they did a merger ? In today’s market it's > quite common that smaller ISPs get acquired by larger ones and the policy > would impose some restrictions which makes no sense. > > I have more observations regarding other non-sense and incorrect terms of > the proposed policy, but first I really want to see if Marco, together with > the RIPE team, really want to discuss and make modifications according the > general good and common sense or everybody wants to pass this policy, like > most of them, with no real answers to the problems raised. We will pass > this policy in fanfare sounds, without any modifications, like the most of > the past ones, or we will look seriously at members observations and change > the policy accordingly? > > Best Regards > Niculae Plesa > > > >
