[address-policy-wg] 2015-01 New Policy Proposal (Alignment ofTransfer Requirements for IPv4 Allocations)

Hello Saeed,

> Now, isn't it possible, that RIPE NCC develops a policy ( maybe there one ) to take back these advertised address spaces ?
> because their initial criteria is not valid any more ? ( obviously  those organization, do not need these address spaces. )
> 
> I can understand LEASING some IPs for some period of time, but I can't understand selling them.

We (this working group) had that discussion in 2007 when policy proposal 2007-08 was introduced. At the time it was decided that reallocation (transfers) were a better / more viable solution than trying to reclaim unused addresses. Please take a look at the mailing list archives to see how the discussion went. It was a quite long discussion.

Proposal 2007-08: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-08
Mailing list archive: https://www.ripe.net/search?SearchableText=2007-08&portal_type%3Alist=Message

Cheers,
Sander