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

>> I hope you understand what we want to achieve. Give a chance to those
>> that have registered as LIR after Sept. 2012 to receive a *bit* more
>> space from the central registry (as the prices for small allocations via
>> the transfer market is really high).
>> - would you agree with an other way to achieve this? If yes, please
>> share your thoughts on how this proposal could be amended.
>>
> 
> Well, sure, why not. I think it's a very bad idea for a whole pile of other
> reasons, but if you were to draft a policy that would allow additional
> NEEDS BASED allocations to existing LIRs from address space that gets
> RETURNED to the RIPE NCC that is outside the final /8 pool (so basically,
> allocated pre-2012), that would sound very reasonable, fair and good for
> competition.
> 

I totally agree with Remco except this point. I know a large european
telco that already has bought ~ 2 million IPs so they would be able to
justify the need for a very large chunk. And, besides that the
"justified need" was never something objective, it was easy to
manipulate. We should just say goodbye to needs period and stick with
one bread each so there's enough for everyone.

Ciprian