[ncc-services-wg] LIR closure ?

I have quite vocal, as many will recall, about the (IMNSHO) excessive costs
of small LIRs, especially those like myself that have "legacy" networks to
deal with. I have now read ripe-304 about closures and realised what no one
has bothered to hint to me previously; I could close the LIR and let the
end-user assignments stand and not have to pay the N thousand euros a year
for, basically, nothing.

As I do not intend to make further assignments from by allocations - if I
did, then the company would have business and so would be able to afford to
be an LIR - so is this the best thing to do ?

Given, due to a combination of cash flow and the refusal until very recently
of the NCC to activate my portal access and so deprive me of services I
should be paying for, I am about 2 quarters behind on bills, should I also
ask the NCC to consider crediting those bills and closing the registry
retrospectively ? Is this a "fair" thing to do ? Or am I a scum-bag and its
"all my fault" for not reading all these documents in the time I haven't got
to be an LIR ?

What do I / my customers lose by closing the LIR assuming no assignments are
likely to ever be required ?

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Peter Galbavy
Knowtion Ltd.