Dear colleagues,
Over the last years RIPE NCC has imposed a "rule" that when the last IPs are
transferred the transferring LIR has to pay the full annual membership fee
(even if the LIR was not a member of RIPE for that entire year). I think that
if this is something everybody agrees with, it should be inserted into the
policy text to make this very clear. But if not, then maybe it would be useful
to add a text which would simply say that RIPE NCC should relate exclusively on
this policy when processing transfer requests and is not mandated by the RIPE
community in imposing any kind of abusive taxes.
I also have a problem with the 24 months period of keeping the IPv4 addresses
after merging 2 companies. It's exactly our case, we want to buy and merge with
a telecom company and we will no longer need all their IPv4 addresses since we
have more than enough by merging both companies resources. We want to transfer
a part of the IP addresses to other Company that really need them. Why to wait
24 months?
Best Regards,
Marius Cristea
