<html><body><style type="text/css">  </style><div id='d_1550492789655' style="font-family:Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size:11.0pt; color:#2E65AE">If you don't need the /22, then why are you registering an additional LIR? You can get ipv6 for your existing LIR... BTW, legally RIPE's position seems correct. The German partnership seems very much the same as a Dutch partnership. A LIR needs to be in the name of a legal person, and a partnership is not a legal person distinct from the partners. The liability would pass through the partnership when being sued and is just a convenience when suing that's identical to all partners being named as plaintiffs. So, if liability is severable and not joint, I'd suggest the proper way to name the entity is as "[and¦,] [and ] trading as ". If liability is joint and not severable (ie each partner or at least the main partner is always 100% liable for the partnership), then RIPE's suggestion to roll the LIRs for the partnership into the LIR of the main partner is correct, as there is no legal difference between the partnership (as non-legal person) and the main partner (ie the main partner is the only one that may sign and is 100% liable for the partnership, so legally there's no distinction at all between a contract signed as the partnership or the legal person that is the main partner). That there is another partner in the partnership is legally irrelevant in that case. I would guess that liability for partnerships is joint in Germany as it is in The Netherlands and RIPE is correct. It may make you angry, but RIPE didn't make the laws! <div id="signature-x" style="-webkit-user-select:none; font-family:Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size:11.0pt; color:#2E65AE"><html><head></head><body class="airwise">-- Regards, Terrence Koeman, PhD/MTh/BPsy Darkness Reigns (Holding) B.V. Please quote relevant replies. Spelling errors courtesy of my 'smart'phone. </body></html></div></div></div></div><div class="quoted_separate_body"/><div id="quoted_header" style="clear:both;"><hr style="border:none; height:1px; color:#E1E1E1; background-color:#E1E1E1;"/><div style="border:none; padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">From: Markus Stalder <ms@lightupnet.de> Sent: Monday, 18 February 2019 11:21 To: members-discuss@ripe.net Subject: Re: [members-discuss] RIPE legal: Please stop this madness! </div></div> <div id="quoted_body"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">--On 18.02.2019 09:24 +0000 Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote: > My thought too. What are they playing at giving you an additional /22 > which are supposed to be for new companies only. > > If I were you I'd shut up and do as they ask to collect my bonus /22, Useless reply because you missed the point completely. You should not tar everyone with the same brush, buddy. They can keep the /22, we don't need it. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Markus Stalder ms@lightupnet.de Lightup Network Solutions GmbH & Co. KG http://www.lightupnet.de Fon +49 (0)69 962 4456 0 (Zentrale) Fon +49 (0)69 962 4456 11 (Durchwahl) Fax +49 (0)69 962 4456 20 __________________________________________________ Please direct all support issues directly to support@lightupnet.de. This will guarantee fastest processing possible. Bitte richten Sie alle Support-Anfragen direkt an support@lightupnet.de. Nur so ist die schnellst- mögliche Bearbeitung gewährleistet. __________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ members-discuss mailing list members-discuss@ripe.net https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/members-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/options/members-discuss/terrence%40darkness-reigns.com </blockquote></div></body></html>