Andre Stiphout wrote:

But in the case the pullups go, signifying the end of a network, and there is no clear RIPE policy behind this, I suspect not many providers will care about getting these customers renumbered if these customers feel they retain sufficient global connectivity. The net result is an increase of the size of the routing table.

Is this detailed in the LIR contract or something and what is the value of that contract if the LIR disappears, but the customers find connectivity elsewhere?

I think that ripe-185 is pretty clear on registry colsures: | If the registry is closing as a Local IR, but will continue to provide | Internet connectivity to its customers as an ISP, the customers can continue | to use the address space already assigned to them. Assignments made by a | registry that is closed remain valid for as long as the original criteria | under which they were assigned remains valid. | | If the registry will no longer provide Internet connectivity to customers with | assigned address space, the assigned address space should be retrieved from | the users as they renumber. It is the Local IR's responsibility to help its | customers with renumbering. and | In general a period of 3 months should be allowed for the end user to complete | the transition to the new addresses. RFC 2008 "Implications of Various Address | Allocation Policies for Internet Routing" [Rekhter96a] recommends a grace | period of at least 30 days, and no longer than six months. For exceptional | cases, where the end user requests to keep both assignments for more than 6 | months, approval should be obtained for the proposed time frame from the RIPE | NCC. James (Co-chair RIPE LIR-WG)