[address-policy-wg] 2016-03 Discussion Period extended until 15 July 2016 (Locking Down the Final /8 Policy)

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 08:43:45PM +0200, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN wrote:
> Another "legitimate" case that will no longer be possible was an
> argument what was given to me during the discussion of 2015-05:
> A company becomes LIR because they need "some provider independent"
> space (which today is limited to ALLOCATED PA) which usually equals to
> "less than a /24 of actual need, but still a /24 for routing purposes".
> They don't really need more than a /24 now and on short/medium term, and
> they estimate that they will not need more than a second /24 (size chose
> for routing purposes only) even in the longer term. Someone argued that
> it would be legitimate and desirable for that LIR to put the remaining
> /23 (considered not ever be a need) on the market. Did this became
> non-legitimate over-night ?

I would consider this also as a fringe case - legitimate according to the
letter of the policy, but not according to the spirit.   These /22s are
not for trading.

But I'm close to giving up on this and calling a ban on further changes
to the IPv4 policy - the "new LIR" folks here are accting in a fairly
irresponsible way regarding *future* participants, while at the same
time complaining that they are treated unfairly by the old LIRs - totally
ignoring the fact that *without the foresight of these old LIRs* you
wouldn't have any space at all today.

This is not the way to do bottom-up policy making - "I want my cookie and
I want it now, and I do not care for the greater good".

Gert Doering
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