# Multiple LIR Accounts: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead

DevFeed: [Multiple LIR Accounts: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/multiple-lir-accounts-looking-back-and-thinking-ahead-11447.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://labs.ripe.net/author/marco_schmidt/multiple-lir-accounts-looking-back-and-thinking-ahead/>)

Author: Marco Schmidt

Published: 2026-08-12T12:47:22Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [RIPE Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ripe-labs.md>)

Topics: [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [Networks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networks.md>), [.NET 11](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/net-11.md>)

Tags: [administration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/administration.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complexity.md>), [ip](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ip.md>), [ipv4](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ipv4.md>), [networks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networks.md>), [operational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operational.md>), [policy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/policy.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines how allowing RIPE NCC members to operate multiple Local Internet Registry (LIR) accounts evolved from a solution for limited organizational situations into a source of disproportionate operational complexity. It reviews the effects of IPv4 exhaustion, the last /8 policy, and the IPv4 transfer market, then explains the Internet Registry System and the rationale for simplifying the current model.

## Source excerpt

Why a feature introduced for a handful of members became one of the RIPE NCC's most complex operational challenges.