[address-policy-wg] Revised 2007-01 moved back to Review Period (Direct Internet Resource Assignments to End Users from the RIPE NCC)

* Gert Doering:

> We will come up with a new proposal how to handle ERX space (which is
> not yet written and thus cannot be discussed yet).

It would make sense to handle this in the same document because some
LIRs have converted EARLY-REGISTRATION to to ASSIGNED PI and some
didn't.

>> I don't think recovering resources from unwilling end users is a good
>> way to spend the membership fees.  (I don't speak for any member,
>> though.)  And unless there is a clear incentive (which I don't see--the
>> thread of revoking the assignment is not particularly convincing), a lot
>> of end users will be unwilling.
>
> One of the incentives would be "without a clear contractual relationship,
> we can't give out a certificate for this resource".

What kind of certificate?  All RIPE policies say that the address space
might not be usable for routing purposes.  2007-01, if implemented,
could lead to competing claims of ownership for an address block which
cannot be dismissed immediately as without merit.

> The main focus for the implementation is "new resource assignments", of
> course, but for consistency reasons it's important to have a plan how
> to tackle existing stuff.

I see no consistency here because ERX and PA waste is totally ignored.
Focusing on new assignments only would actually improve consistency.