[address-policy-wg] About the /22 allocation limitation

Hi,

> But instead of running into exhaustion in "2 months" we can handle it to
> be "2 years". Please, take in account the time between quotes as an
> example.

An example, perhaps, but a wildly unlikely one if I understand¹ your
proposal correctly. The LIRs in the RIPE region have over the last 18
month gathered up a large unmet demand. Therefore I expect that if we do
create a new small pool for "normal" allocations, it will be gone pretty
much overnight. It'll be like a lottery, just like when a radio host
announces «we've got N free X for the first Y people to call us». I do
not believe this would be useful to the community.

[1] To 1) leave the "last /8 policy" as it currently is (1 /22 per LIR)
for 185.0.0.0/8 only, and 2) allocate according to demonstrated need for
all other addresses that somehow finds their way into the RIPE NCC's
allocation pool (such as returned/reclaimed from LIRs, delegated from
the IANA Recovered IPv4 Pool, and so forth). This new pool would have a
minimum allocation size of /24 and no maximum size. Have I understood
correctly?

Tore