[address-policy-wg] Seen this?: (Was: IP Broker for -1.-1.-1.-1)

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Ond??ej Surý wrote:
> > Transferring address blocks to those in need and receiving monetary 
> > compensation in exchange is *not* against RIPE policies.
> > 
> > To the contrary, it is expected that the transfers are registered with
> > the RIPE NCC so people know who currently "owns"(*) an address block.
> 
> The email/proposition talks about "leases", and not transfers.  

Transfers can be temporary.

> And if I remember correctly you should return unused blocks and not 
> lease them, don't you?

You are certainly welcome to return unsed blocks to the RIPE NCC, but
you do not *have* to - the policies for allocations do not require that
(and there is no provision for the NCC to forcibly take them back either),
that's only for assignments.

Gert Doering
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