In message <20130627111402.GZ2706@Space.Net>, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
Assume for the sake of argument that I received a /21 from some RIPE LiR one year ago. Assume that I never put _anything_ in it. Assume that RIPE NCC "audits" me. What happens, exactly?
If you got the /21 *from a LIR*, you will not be audited, because you're not dealing with the NCC.
If you *are* a LIR, and as that LIR have received a /21, the NCC will try to ensure that whatever you registered is OK
Please definie the meaning of "OK" in this context.
if you have never registered anything, nothing will happen, unless they find lies in your contractual information (company doesn't exist, etc.) - in *that* case they will close down the LIR and take back the space.
So, if I am understanding you correctly, if, say, a given LIR obtained, say, a /17 two years ago, and then just sat on it, and never put a single thing in it in all that time, there is nothing that can or will be done about that colossal waste of (supposedly) precious IPv4 space. Is that correct? Have I understood you correctly? And likewise, if said hypothetical LIR obtained the same hypothetical /17 two years ago, and since that time has allocated it to a "customer" who then proceeded to fill it only with a single physical machine and on the order of 32,000 utterly phony baloney domain names, either for the purpose of snowshoe spamming or for the purpose of so-called "blackhat SEO", then there is nothing that anybody within RIPE, or within RIPE NCC, or anywhere in all the world either may or will do about that. Is that a correct interpretation of what you have said? (Please understand that I'm not trying to be rude to anybody. I'm just trying to understand the current policy.) Regards, rfg