[address-policy-wg] 2011-03 New Policy Proposal (Post-depletion IPv4 address recycling)

Hi,

> 2. It's not explicitly defined because it all depends on the address space
> returned. As I already indicated in another email, the long term effect of
> this is likely to be that all /8s managed by the RIPE NCC will have a
> minimum allocation size of a /22; and if we then run out of /22s or larger
> and need to hand out multiple smaller blocks (moving to clause 4) a few
> additional /8s might get *really* unlucky. But that will only happen when
> we're scraping the RIPE NCC barrel.

If we reach that point people can be glad they get *any* addresses. It's either this or no IPv4 addresses at all. They might hit prefix-length filters, but still, at least they have a chance to try something.

- Sander