[address-policy-wg] 2015-05

> Don't get me wrong, but I think we are in some kind of dilemma here. Many knew this would become a free lunch, so why
> vote against it?

Policies are adopted through consensus so we can asume that at the time
of adoption any policy was what (most of) the community wanted.


> "With great power comes great responsibility.". Unused space has to be returned to the registry for free, as the initial
> requirements for the assignment are no longer met. RIPE should audit and enforce it - just start by grabbing all
> listings on the transfer market *g*.

Yes, I'm waiting for Santa Claus, too. Unfortunately our capitalist
society is mostly profit-driven so we have to live with it whether we
like it or not. Go to Daimler and tell them that. Will they return any
of the 16,7 million IPs that they hold (53.0.0.0/8) ? I remember (I hoep
I'm not wrong) that RIPE NCC has contacted UK DWP a few years ago about
their /8 and they said they can't return any of the IPs. This year they
started to monetize a few million IPs already.

> It's not against your business, it's against the current policies.

The policies are adopted by the community and represent the best
decisions that could have been taken at that time. Of course things
changes and sometimes policies need to be changed. However I don't think
the current proposal would bring any good change.

Ciprian