[address-policy-wg] Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:34:31PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Nick Hilliard:
> 
> > Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> >> Unfortunately, RIPE has never used the word "lease" after 2001.  The
> >> word "lease" was removed when the doc became policy:
> >
> > In countries whose legal system is derived from the british legal
> > code, the word "lease" can attract the attention of the tax
> > authorities who like to feel that all leases should be officially
> > stamped and should therefore incur a stamp duty of several per cent of
> > the lease cost.
> 
> Over here, a lease implies that it's RIPE NCC's job to make sure that
> the prefix is and remains in usable shape for its intended purpose
> (globally routeable, not blacklisted etc.).

	does RIPE NCC -really- provide assurance that a prefix
	it hands out is globally routable?

`	Or is that just an implied aspect of the term "lease",
	which is not in use these days?


--bill