[address-policy-wg] Reclamation of Number Resources

Greetings all,

As many of you no doubt know, there has been quite an extraordinarily large
brouhaha of late within the AFRINIC region relating to AFRINIC's efforts to
reclaim certain large blocks of IPv4 addresses from one particular member
organization.  This effort has resulted in considerable litigation within
Mauritius, the home country of AFRINIC.

Partially as a result of this ongoing controversy, but also just for my
own edification, I would like to ask a number of questions about any and
all prior instances in which RIPE has reclaimed number resources from
member organizations, based on policy.

It seems safe to assume that there have historically been some instances in
which RIPE memberships have been terminated, and any associated assigned
number resources reclaimed, if and when a given member has simply failed
to pay fess due to RIPE.  My questions however have to do with situations
where policy violations other than the non-payment of fees are involved.
Specifically, I would like to know if any of you can recall past instances
where number resources have been reclaimed, by RIPE, for any of the following
reasons:

    *)  Usage of the assigned number resources was no longer consistant with
        the original justification submitted to RIPE.

    *)  Violation(s) of out-of-region usage policy.

    *)  Any other policy violations.

Thanks in advance for any and all responses.


Regards,
rfg