[address-policy-wg] A comment on 2008-03 & 2007-09

Brian,

On May 30, 2008, at 5:23 AM, Brian Nisbet wrote:
> If both policies were introduced then I can easily
> envisage a scenario where a bigger RIR uses up its /8, then starts
> to nibble away at the remaining addresses of those who will be slower
> to allocate their space, ie AfriNIC and LACNIC, thus defeating the
> purpose of fairness that I see inherent in 2008-03.  The worse case
> scenario here, for the less developed RIRs at least, is that they
> may see very little of that last /8.

Suppose we fast forward to ~2011 and you've just been rejected by RIPE- 
NCC because they have no more address space to hand out whereas  
AfriNIC and LACNIC both have (at least) a full /8.

I'm curious: what do you think is going to happen?

Thanks,
-drc