[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria

On 5-apr-05, at 14:34, Gert Doering wrote:

>> Either having very many people get /32s is harmful, or it isn't. How
>> does paying the RIPE fee move this from "harmful" to "non-harmful"?

> It reduces the possible amount of applicants from "anybody out there"
> (many billions) to "anybody who thinks this is so important to his
> heart / business that he's willing to shell out serious money for it".

So you agree that an excessive number of prefixes is bad?

Then the only thing we disagree about is whether the LIR fee will be 
enough to make the number non-excessive. It will at first, of course, 
but it's unlikely to do so in the long term as RIRs are not-for-profit 
so the more people become a LIR, the lower the fees become.