We cannot really stop anyone from becoming a LIR... -- RIPE

>Certainly the only place I ever see an LIR name used is in the 'X-NCC-RegID'
>header, which I'm sure isn't seen by customers.  How are similar LIR names
>going to confuse the general public when they never see them?

  ...and even there, the individual tags are qualified by the ISO3166
  country codes. I'd be *really* surprised if the NCC would have allocated
  the same name twice for the *same* country?!
  
  -WW
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