Re: Commecial vs fairness (was: spam support)

[Mally Mclane <]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Anne Marcel Roorda wrote:

> 
> In message <20020216165815.D20830@localhost>, furio ercolessi writes:
> 
> > >   RIPE makes no claims of usability for any of the IP ranges they
> > > give out. The only claim that is made, is that the IP range is
> > > globally unique.
> > 
> > Of course.  What I wanted to mean is not "RIPE NCC is supposed to 
> > give out usable IP blocks", but "in the current status of affairs, the
> > system may have some global benefits if the regulations were
> > modified so as to consider this problem, and decrease the 
> > likelihood of assigning a deteriorated block to some poor fellow".
> 
>   An announcement from the NCC upon return of a IP range would fix that.
> Anyone running a blacklist would then have the entire hold period to
> remove any listings from that range.

the ncc doesnt see all that much space returned. If a company goes bust or
somesuch, their assets are usually bought out by another company.

m