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

Dear colleagues,

The RIPE NCC Executive Board would like to ask the membership to discuss
the issue of RIPE NCC members opening additional LIR accounts.

There were comments at the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM) in November
2015 that members having the ability to open additional LIR accounts,
each of which can request a /22 of IPv4 address space, may run against
the spirit of the last /8 policy. In light of this, the Board decided to
temporarily suspend the ability of RIPE NCC members to open additional
LIR accounts.

The RIPE NCC began to allocate IPv4 address space from the last /8
policy on 14 September 2012. Since that time the RIPE NCC has allocated
more than 8,600 /22s, yet there remains 0.94 of a /8 still in the pool.

ACTION REQUIRED:
The Board asks the membership to provide their opinion on and discuss
the following points:

1. Is the activity of members opening additional LIR accounts a problem
that must be prevented?

2. If this activity is a problem that must be prevented, what action
should the RIPE NCC take to attempt its prevention?

Statistics pertinent to this discussion are available in this article on
RIPE Labs:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/laura_cobley/ripe-ncc-members-and-multiple-lir-accounts?pk_campaign=members&pk_kwd=list-ncc

The Board asks that members discuss this issue on the Members Discuss
mailing list <members-discuss at ripe.net>.

The Board will monitor the discussion and will review it at the next
Executive Board Meeting on 31 March 2016. Depending on the outcome of
that meeting, the Board may propose a resolution for members to vote on
at the RIPE NCC General Meeting in May 2016.

Best regards,

Nigel Titley
RIPE NCC Executive Board