<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>+1 </div><div> </div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__">Nuno Vieira # hashpower - datacenter and it services Leiria | Portugal p: +351308814400 e: nuno@hashpower.pt w: https://hashpower.pt </div><div> </div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">From: "José Manuel Giner" <jm@ginernet.com> To: members-discuss@ripe.net Sent: Wednesday, 17 June, 2020 16:19:53 Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Decommissioning the IPv4 Transfer Listing Service </blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">Hello, I am interested in keeping that list, we are part of the list to buy IPs and we like to receive offers from other LIRs. Thanks. On 10/06/2020 12:59, Felipe Victolla Silveira wrote: > Dear members, > > In my update at RIPE 80[1], I mentioned that we would like to > decommission the IPv4 Transfer Listing Service unless there there were > strong objections. So far, we have heard no requests to keep the service. > > In case anyone is unfamiliar with this, the listing service allows > members to offer/request IPv4 prefixes for transfer: > https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-transfers-and-mergers/listing > > While there are currently 681,000 IPv4 addresses "offered" on the > listing service, when we attempted to match LIRs that had used the > service with those that went on to make a transfer, we couldn't find > much of a correlation. Of the 1,969 LIRs that transferred resources in > our service region last year, only 76 had posted on the listing service > and it's not clear whether the service actually connected the > offering/receiving parties for these cases. > > As the listing service is reaching the end of its lifespan, a full > reimplementation would be needed to continue supporting it. Given that > the listing service does not appear to be adding much in terms of value, > spending development time on this does seem like a good use of members' > funds. > > We are therefore planning to discontinue the IPv4 Transfer Listing > Service on 22 June. If you have strong objections to this, please let us > know or share feedback on members-discuss. > > Regards > > Felipe Victolla Silveira > Chief Operations Officer > RIPE NCC > > [1] RIPE NCC Operational Update: > https://ripe80.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/28-Operational-Update-RIPE-80-to-upload.pdf > -- José Manuel Giner https://ginernet.com _______________________________________________ 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/nuno%40hashpower.pt </blockquote></div></div></body></html>