Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Policy proposal: closing allocation/assignment window, was Policy disallowing spam from RIPE blocks

* Gert Doering:

This is the whole point. There might be a business relation with a local LIR already, and that's way easier for "smallish companies" than to do international contracts with Amstedam.

Some transit providers require LIR status in their contracts (presumably, they don't want to deal with abuse complaints, RIPE policy changes, and so on, so this is understandable). Relying on an existing LIR is not always an option, even for small companies. -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99