Hi, earlier I muttered something about terminology in conjunction with what we're actually discussing about the legacy resource holders. Daniel wrote: So what we have to decide as a community is: under which policies does the RIPE community allow legacy space holders to register their address space in the RIPE Internet Number registry. Nothing more, nothing less. Now, first, as far as I've gathered, the RIPE Internet Number registry is *not* the same as the RIPE database. We even have a fine informational document, ripe-508, with the title "The RIPE registry". Is "The RIPE registry" and "the RIPE Internet Number registry" one and the same? Secondly, ripe-508 speaks about the data in "The RIPE registry", and that document also talks about the legacy resources the RIPE NCC has the record-keeping responsibility for, and mentions that this includes Internet number resources which were assigned before the RIPE NCC was (fully) established, and that these resources are already a part of "The RIPE registry", tagged as "legacy". A side question here would be whether a "complete" public view of "The RIPE registry" is available in any manner? The delegated-ripencc- latest file in ftp.ripe.net:/pub/stats/ripencc/ does not list any resources marked "legacy". Unless someone is intentionally playing with words with the intent to confuse, and "the RIPE registry" is separate and different from "The RIPE Internet Number registry" (I doubt that's the case), this makes me a little uncertain about what *exactly* it is we are discussing when it comes to the handling of the legacy resources, because according to ripe-508 the legacy resources used in the RIPE NCC service region should already be registered in "The RIPE registry". Can someone in authority please make an attempt to clear up this particular source of confusion? Best regards, - Håvard