Hi, On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 10:14:18AM +0000, Jim Reid wrote:

Besides, there???s no mechanism or policy for the NCC to recover addresses from LIRs that don???t pay their bills. If such mechanisms or policies existed, they???d be unworkable. There???s no way of knowing for sure that those addresses weren???t being used. So if they were reclaimed, the addresses couldn???t be allocated to someone else.

Uh. There actually is - if a LIR stops paying their NCC member fees, the LIR account will be closed, and the address space will be reclaimed. After sufficient quarantaine, the addresses will be allocated to someone else. (There is no mechanism to reclaim addresses from LIR that "do not use them", because they were given out under policies that had no such clause - but that's different from "LIRs that don't pay their bills") Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Michael Emmer Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279