[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Members and Multiple LIR Accounts - Please Discuss

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Sascha Luck [ml] wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 05:25:09PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
>
>> Thus, I think the NCC should not permit single entities to open
>> up multiple LIRs to weasel around policy restrictions.
>
> That I could get behind, because this offence, as stated,
> requires two facts to be true:
>
> a) an entity opens another LIR AND
> b) it does so in order to circumvent policy
>
> So, opening another LIR would require the NCC to ascertain motive
> before it approves the second LIR and *that* I could live with.
> For instance, someone trying to open $lots_of_lirs in a short
> time frame would be strong circumstantial evidence that they are
> up to no good...

+1

Of course whenever you have rules, someone will be trying to get around 
them. Stopping "single legal entities" to open additional LIR:s will not 
make it impossible to still get several /22:s but at least we will not 
encourage such behaviour. At the time for RIPE 71 I was told that NCC 
staff were very frustrated because they could see this kind of 
applications and there were not much they could do about it.

Apparently there are/were cases when entities - or natural persons - 
were opening *lots* of LIR:s in order to merge them as soon as they 
received the /22 IPv4.

Cheers,

Daniel

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