Marcus, it was mine idea about contractual relationship between DA user and LIR, not hostmasters'. You can look into 2007-01 discussion thread ;) The idea is for some regions (i.e. ex-USSR) is very difficult (and in some cases - military and goverment organizations for example - just impossible) to sign international contracts and pay even 0.01 EUR abroad. And this is only for helping them to save their DAs, nothing else. Marcus.Gerdon wrote:
So that would be an easy one:
To receive provider-independent resources get into contract with RIPE-NCC. Without any other way.
Only problem with this 'Direct End User Assignment' is the horrible, far to high fee NCC want's to invoice.
My theory: our dear hostmasters don't want to have the typical end-user hassle themselves and simply go for keeping that which has been made possible by 2007-01 far away by simply setting the fee high enough.
Being forced to have a LIR handle a independent resource makes that resource dependent.
-- WBR, Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253@FIDO)