[rmoriz]

It's not comparable. You will lose your AS and PA if your sourcing-LIR goes out of business or increases prices against you. It's ab big difference to become a LIR or just a downstream customer.

[direwolf20]

You shouldn't lose an ASN or PI block, they are registered to you at RIPE, only managed by the LIR and can be transferred to another LIR in exceptional or routine circumstances. I think you'll have to pay another fee though.

A PA block is just part of a LIR's block that they give you permission to use, so I doubt you could keep that if they went out of business, but maybe RIPE has a procedure for it.

[kay_o]

I do not know anyone that have PI recently. It is exceptional to issue these days

[icedchai]

For a hobbyist it’s perfectly fine, I think? I’ve been doing this for years. If I was a major corporation I might be more concerned.

[rmoriz]

I don't want to blame anyone for using this setup except RIPE for their fee schedule. For example, I don't have IPv6 because that would double my running costs just for RIPE.