On 17/09/16 11:23, Radu-Adrian Feurdean wrote:
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 strict status is that LIRs have a right to use an internet resource (they do not own it). They can transfer that right to use (but not the resource itself). Just trying to inject a bit of clarity. Nigel