[address-policy-wg] [Ticket#2013020401002158] New on RIPE Labs: 1, 000 /22 Allocated from Last /8

Alexey,

On Tuesday, 2013-02-05 14:11:35 +0400, 
LeaderTelecom Ltd. <info at leadertelecom.ru> wrote:
> Dear Shane,
> 
> >   That's about 6 years, assuming things stay constant.
> >       2155 / 365.25 = 5.9
>   
> Many companies in fact had reserves, while they thinked about future.

But I thought the whole point of the special policy for the last /8 was
to support new companies, who did not have a chance to get any reserves?

To me, the policy makes no sense otherwise.
 
> I think the most intresting changes we will see during next 12 month.
> Amount of requests IPv4 from last /8 can rapidly increase (in 2-5
> times). 

We see a spike in the number of new LIR which happened almost exactly
at the same time the IPv4 addresses ran out and the "one allocation per
new LIR" policy went into effect:

https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/lirs-with-and-without-ipv6

It looks like people are creating new LIR to circumvent the intent of
the policy - reserving IPv4 space for newcomers.

Cheers,

--
Shane