> Moving to RIPE is not an unalloyed good; Europeans invented bureaucracy, > and RIPE pursues it with vigor. And getting the above treatment may > require firmly asserting to RIPE that you want it, rather than accepting > the defaults. But their motives are more benevolent than ARIN's toward > legacy resource holders; RIPE honestly seems to want to gather in legacy > resource holders, either as RIPE members or not, without reducing any of > the holders' rights or abilities. I commend them for that.
I have to say that my experience transferring to RIPE-NCC was quite pleasant and involved quite minimal bureaucratic hassle. I did have to select “Legacy without contract” on one form and reassert that in reply to one email, but that was about the extent of it. YMMV. Owen
