[address-policy-wg] 2015-05 Discussion Period extended until 13 May 2016 (Last /8 Allocation Criteria Revision)

Hi Erik, 

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016, at 22:07, Erik Bais wrote:

> If we currently have about 12.000 members .. and hand out additional
> /22’s to each of them, it will cost 12 milj addresses ( more or less..)  
> ( as it would be more fair than discriminating on current size and age of
> an LIR … ) 

We won't "hand them out". We live them the choice to ask. Please note
that some of them didn't request their /22 as per current policy.

> The pool won’t grow much more than it is currently … 

We are aware.

> So handing out 12 milj. addresses in a single gift.. without the hard

Again, we are not doing this in a "single gift". Or at least it is not
what we wanted to say. 

> requirement to not allow final /8 policy received IP space to be
> transferred, will most likely only increase the run-out of the IP space
> and not fix anything.. 

This is something worth discussing. I think enough people were
complaining about this in order to start discussing this more seriously.

> If we hand out 12 milj. Addresses of the 16.4 milj. We have 4.4 milj.
> addresses left.. meaning that we will have a full run-out within 18
> months. 

Then again, we are not talking about handing out in one shot !

Otherwise, I can understand your point of view.

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