* Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Tore Anderson wrote:
I have already read the news of blackmarket sales of network allocations in Europe.
Interesting. Do you have a link or some other kind of reference?
<http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/listing> is a "white market sales" place. Perhaps that's what the previous poster meant.
Searching for "IPv4 broker" yields a lot of results as well, that might be the "black market" though.
"White market" transfers has been allowed in the RIPE region since late 2008, cf. http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-08. There's no requirement that the transferred space is put on the NCC's listing service first - you can use a broker to arrange it if you want, or do it completely in private. For a transfer not to be "white", the transaction would need happen without the NCC's knowing and blessing. This implies validations of the receiver's operational need for the allocation, and updating the registry/database to reflect the new holder. I'm genuinely interested in reading articles or other research documenting that such "black market" transfers are happening (or not). Tore