[address-policy-wg] 2015-05 New Policy Proposal (Revision of Last /8 Allocation Criteria)

As I said during the WG at RIPE70, I fully support the existing /8
policy because we *were* a late entrant to this Internet game[1], and it
allowed a previous employer of mine to actually get _any_ announcable
IPv4 space.

While I feel sympathy for a business that has issues with not enough
space, I have more sympathy for a business that has zero IP space and
needs one.

I am against this proposal.


[1] Technically, the company had existed for a while with someone else's
IP space, but for practical reasons, the company needed to have an
allocation that belonged to it.


On 2015 Oct 20 (Tue) at 16:27:21 +0200 (+0200), Remco van Mook wrote:
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:Hi all,
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:(no hats)
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:I think this is a very bad idea*. The whole reason the final /8 policy looks the way it does (and is as far as I can see working *exactly* as intended) is so late entrants to this Internet game have a fair chance of establishing themselves without having to resort to commercial alternatives for IPv4 address space.
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:For established LIRs, adding a trickle of additional address space probably won???t make a jot of a difference for their business and is likely not going to optimise the utilisation of those final scraps. The final /22 is *intended* to be used as a migration tool to IPv6, and is a crucial tool at that. I consider it a Very Good Thing Indeed that this region had the foresight that IPv6 won???t happen overnight once IPv4 runs out** and as long as we???re still talking about IPv6 adoption and not IPv4 deprecation, that tool should be available for as many organisations as possible.
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:Finally, introducing this kind of change in policy at this point in time could well be argued as being anti-competitive and would end us up in a legal mess.
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:Remco
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:* So yes, dear chairs, please consider this e-mail to be against this proposal.
:**Technically we have already run out a number of times, depending on your definition. None of those events has been earth-shaking, or induced major migrations to IPv6.