[address-policy-wg] "last /8" allocation size - community feedback request before engaging PDP

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015, at 10:03, Tore Anderson wrote:
> >   b. treat all addressing space available for allocation as a single pool
> B. KISS.
> 
> > 2. Conditions for allocation the first /22.
> Maintain the status quo.

Point taken.

> > 3. Further allocation(s) (after the first /22)
> None of the above. My preference is to maintain the status quo - no
> additional allocations. I do not quite see why we should change the
> «last /8» policy which in my view has been quite successful (except for
> the abuse that 2015-01 hopefully helps shut down).
> 
> If it ain't broke, don't fix it?
> 
> Unless we interpret «broke» to mean «exhausted». If so, c'est la vie.

I take "broken" as "painful and far enough from exhaustion", so in need
of a fix.
Reminder, we are 3 years (precisely) into the "last /8 IPocalypse", and
RIPE still has more than 0.98 of a /8 available (more likely 0.99).