On Fri, Sep 16, 2016, at 14:41, Daniel Pearson wrote:
Business is not fair, it is a competitive market place. Hell, life isn't
That doesn't stop plenty of people to try bringing in some fairness in the life and/or business scene. Regarding their success, there's a whole other discussion, and here it's not the place for it.
RIPE cannot and will not do this, let me explain why. According to RIPE, and most RIR's, their stance is that you do not "own" the IP addresses that are given to you, and that they can technically take them back at
... and then you have the transfer market, where people got IP addresses for free some years ago and now they sell them for profit. This the starting point of all this. Some LIRs do agree and support the "one does NOT own IPs" stance, other don't or no longer do. Generally those that need IP space tend to agree, those that have excess not. Of course there are exceptions.... The reason for which RIPE NCC does not want to instate a charging scheme strictly proportional/dependent on the IPv4 count it's its non-commercial status. If a progressive charging scheme is to be instated (as it has been the case for 20 years), it must have a limited number of steps in order to have any hope of being accepted. -- Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN