Hi, it's funny how the outcome of a transfer request depends so much on which IPRA is handling that request. We've had numerous tickets with the RIPE NCC and I can confirm that the outcome of a request/ticket depends a lot on which IPRA is responding, whether the weather was nice that morning or whether the IPRA had a good breakfast :) I've been complaining to the RIPE NCC RS management team for more than a decade about inconsistencies in the department (even when I was working there as an IPRA, up to 8 years ago) and I am not sure that anything can be done.. Some people will follow the procedure to the letter and further, some will be more lenient. The SLA was very important about 10 years when I was working there - every message was supposed to receive a reply within 24 hours. Now that doesn't seem to matter any more, I don't even know if the NCC still has an SLA. Every time I did not like an answer or the delay of a ticket without an actual reason, I've replied to the IPRA and CCed the manager of the department. Most of the times, my request has received an answer from a manager or a swift resolution from the IPRA. I used to get the contact details of the managers from the RIPE website, but it seems that one is not maintained at all any longer (I've seen managers there that have not been working for the NCC for 6-12 or even more months). I contacted Fergal about this issue and i hope they are working on updating their staff pages (too bad that most managers e-mail addresses are no longer public so you can not actually CC them in a ticket any longer). To also address your peculiar issue, it would be very simple to ask a lawyer or someone that handles registration of Ukrainian companies what that line means and forward the answer to the RIPE NCC. Or wait for the RIPE NCC to get that answer directly... however, it is strange that with a few Ukrainian employees in house (and hundreds if not thousands of Ukrainian registration documents processed over the years) the RIPE NCC has decided to contact the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice to request clarification in this case. my 2 cents, elvis On 3/2/20 18:11, Dmitry P wrote:
Hello,
we are in some weird situation with transfering out an IP range and RIPE doesn't provide any answers to our questions, the transfer is suspended for a very weird reason and we are out of options; I would like to hear other members opinions on that subject with a hope of seeking some answers that RIPE didn't provide after numerous attempts.
Our company's extracts are created by Ukraine's Ministry of Justice and have a specific line near the director field which says '(не має)' right after mentioning the director's name, which means "(doesn't have)" from Ukrainian. ПОЧТАРЬОВ ДМИТРО ОЛЕГОВИЧ - керівник з 25.05.2016 (не має);
We had this line on all our extracts since the company was opened and RIPE has a) accepted us as a member by reviewing those extracts b) approved numerous in and out transfers with those extracts since 2016 c) recently approved a transfer out about 2 weeks ago using the extract with the same line.
4 days ago we have requested another transfer and a RIPE rep. has asked us to clarify about what '(не має)' means in our extract. We have no clue what it means exactly and never interested because it was present since a first extract, also because RIPE has never questioned it before, and as I have mentioned, all the previous extracts came with that line.
We don't have a clue of what it means and the RIPE's rep. decided to suspend the transfer and make a request to Ukraine's Ministry of Justice, which was very unexpected decision from our point of view. She told us that "Though we process tens of requests of Ukrainian companies every day, it's first time that we see such a record. It's not entirely clear what it means and what you as a Director "do not have".", to which I responded it's a false statement, because RIPE certainly HAS SEEN this line before, at least because my company have performed many transfers and requests with RIPE, which have been approved using same extracts. In this case, she talked about her own experience in the name of RIPE, which already was not very professional.
So I obviously asked why does some her or RIPE's unawareness in Ukraine's legislation should concern us, to what I got no answer at all. Are we really responsible for RIPE's lack of knowledge on some subject? Our company is active and the extracts are all valid on the min. justice site, also the signee of the T.A. corresponds to the director name - this all makes us compliant to the RIPE's rules and policies, which, we believe should have made this transfer complete already.
Notwithstanding our expectations, RIPE didn't provide any answer to our questions and also didn't tell why this specific matter should concern this specific transfer, since there were already approved transfers using same extract. Now we must wait about 2 or 3 weeks until the Min. of Justice responds them to clarify this, which made us very disappointed, since we still do not understand why this case affects our transfer at all.
This is very frustrating and we have no more choices but hearing other members opinions and suggestions, if any. Doesn't it look like RIPE is very contradictory to its own policies in this case?
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