Hi Aled,
On 10.05.2016 14:12, Aled Morris wrote:
> I am troubled by the new members joining RIPE purely to obtain IPv4
> address space.
>
> Perhaps (shields up!)
that might in fact be a good idea, yes... ;-)
> 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.
This would actually be PI space then.
Apart from this, I'd rather like to have them *WITHIN* the RIPE NCC as a
legal entity under Dutch law than somewhere *OUTSIDE*, free floating
around and at best only loosely coupled to the RIPE NCC by some T&Cs.
My $0.02 - best
-C.
