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

Nigel,

On Tuesday, 2013-02-05 16:21:51 +0000, 
Nigel Titley <nigel at titley.com> wrote:
> > Should we tweak the policy now to make it harder to get IPv4 address
> > space, or wait a few years? It seems slightly unfair to future
> > entrants, but the whole IPv4 allocation model has always vastly
> > favored early entrants, so perhaps we shouldn't worry about it yet.
> >
> Deckchairs... deckchairs...

Do we care about allowing new entrants or not?

If we don't, then we should scrap the last /8 policy, give the entire
block out in one big allocation to MyHugeTelco.tld and be done with it.

If we do, then we should try to make sure that the policy actually
works. I admit to looking at a very short period of time, but it looks
like new companies are not going to have any options for IPv4 space in
a few years.

IPv4 allocation policy tweaks do seem mostly pointless, but they won't
be pointless to the start-up founded 4 or 5 years from now, who is
trying to connect to IPv4-only users. And who knows, maybe that
start-up will be the next Google or Wikipedia, and it will matter to
the rest of us too if they succeed or not....

Cheers,

--
Shane