Florian and all, Exactly right. Again a expected result of poor leadership, rule making, and enforcment of however poor rules that may be in place. The other problem is the ever changing of the rules/contracts that leads to confusion and begins a circular conflagration as well as a level of inconsistance of rules between RIR's. Florian Weimer wrote:
* Shane Kerr:
Why would there be large lawyer bills? Wouldn't it be much, MUCH cheaper to simply sign a contract with the RIPE NCC saying "I am the assignee of this space" rather than spend money on laywers?
The real fun starts when RIPE recovers address space, reassigns it, and the depossessed party starts to sue the new owner.
(Please substitute mentally the correct concept for "owning".)
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