[address-policy-wg] Hoarding /22 out of 185/8

* Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se>

> But 2015-01 at least says you need to keep the LIR open for 24 months, 
> correct, meaning you have to pay the yearly LIR fee 3 times (one initial 
> and 2 recurring). At least that was my understanding of the proposal.

Yes, but it only does this for "normal" transfers per ripe-643 section 5.5.

It does not change anything for «Mergers and Acquisitions», because
that's not regulated in policy, it is an operational procedure made by
the RIPE NCC.

https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-transfers-and-mergers/ipv4-transfers/mergers-and-acquisitions

Since the blocks Fredy posted are gathered in a single LIR, yet absent
from the table of published transfers, I can only surmise that the
person in question is using the M&A procedure to accomplish his goals
and not ripe-643 section 5.5 one.

> At least the above is what I would like to achieve.

2015-01 unfortunately falls short of the mark, but I don't know it
could be fixed since the M&A procedure isn't policy and thus out of
scope for the APWG (as I understand it anyway).

I'm hoping that the NCC's IA will point out that the M&A loophole
remains and maybe advise on how we might go about closing it.

Tore