[address-policy-wg] The final /8 policy proposals, part 3.2

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 13:22 +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> It's not RIPE's position to sit 
> on an ivory tower, wagging its finger at people and saying that they can 
> only have more ipv4 addresses if they agree to swallow some ipv6 medicine.
> 


Agree for as long as there are addresses enough to meet the applicants
needs. Yet it is IMHO pointless to hand out micro-blocks as a sorry
response to a PA-request for a substantially larger block. This isn't
about forcing anyone in any particular direction, but about whether it
is of greater benefit to the community at large to allocate such blocks
to organizations with a potential to enable connectivity between large
numbers of new users and the existing v4 network. It is about
prioritizing the use of a scarce resource as opposed to distributing a
plentiful supply.

//per