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

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016, at 12:50, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
>    IIRC, the triggering of the "last /8" policy (as it has usually been 
> known)
>    did not coincide with receipt of 185/8 from (NB: not "by") IANA by 
> RIPE NCC,
>    but rather with the first allocation by RIPE NCC from 185/8.

185/8 received  from IANA on feb. 2011
185/8 went "in use" (and the policy started) on sept 2012

>    As Roger Jørgensen has explained, once the policy was triggered, it 
> was to apply to all subsequent allocations.

However, in the meantime some events happened:
 - recovered space issue - space returned to IANA 2012-05 to 2014-04 and
 gradually returned starting 2014-05
 - 2013-03 - no need checking
 - 2014-04 - no ipv6 requirement
 - still keeping a high (~= /8) level of "somehow available space"
 - policy abuse, pushing to limits and general change in "who is a LIR"
 (get-to-transfer, multi-LIR/company, out-of-continent LIRs - more and
 more of them, corporate LIRs or simply "just want my damn ASN and /24"
 LIRs)

I hope everybody does realize how this proposal came to life.