[address-policy-wg] [policy-announce] 2012-04 New Draft Document Published (PI Assignments from the last /8)

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:14:37PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>This is an extraordinarily discriminatory position.
>
>In fact I find it not just to be unfair, but dramatically anti- competitive
>as the LIRs could be seen as harbouring the remaining IPv4 address space
>for members of their own club.

Good point, if someone were to take that to court or the competition
commissar.

>By rejecting this proposal, this discrimination against End User
>requirements will be permanently enshrined in RIPE policy and that they
>won't get the opportunity to apply for reclaimed address space in future.
>Again, I find this to compound the implicit unfairness of excluding them in
>the first place.

Possible compromise: make *returned/reclaimed* PI assignments available
for assignment as PI rather than using them to make up patchwork PA
allocations...

rgds,
Sascha Luck