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Dear RIPE NCC members,

We would like to inform you of changes relating to transfers due to a
change in business structure (e.g., mergers and acquisitions) as
specified in the new section 3.6 of ripe-709, "Transfer of Internet
Number Resources and Change of a Member’s Official Legal Name”.

Following a resolution at the Executive Board meeting on 7 September,
when an member transfers IPv4 or 16-bit ASNs that are subject to the
transfer restriction due to a change in business structure, the
transferring LIR account needs to remain open until the new 24-month
restriction on transfer of scarce resources has passed. If the receiving
party already holds an LIR account, the LIR account of the transferring
party will become an additional LIR account of the receiving party.

In effect, consolidation of LIR accounts belonging to the same member is
not possible until the 24-month restriction has passed. However, new
24-month restrictions will not be applied to these resources if they are
further transferred between LIR accounts held by the same member after
the initial restrictions have expired. This applies to all resources
transferred between LIR accounts of the same member in all situations.

This change is effective from 7 September 2018.
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Why was the 24 months transfer restriction adopted by means of discussion (but it is another question about adoption legitimacy)
So, where is the proposal this case? Where is the members discussion? The executive board decides to terminate all the accounts tomorrow, or return all IPs to the free pool and the community will agree.

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Best regards,
Alexandr Stepanov