[address-policy-wg] another way to achieve the original motives of post-exhaustion policy

I just had a thought.

What we're trying to do is to make sure there are IPv4 addresses available 
to new entrants. We're trying to do this by making a LIR get one 
post-exhaustion /22 each. The LIR fee is the limiting factor in trying to 
stop people from getting many /22:s. People have been trying to game this, 
by getting /22 and closing the LIR, thus avoiding the LIR fee. Changes in 
the policy has been all about trying to limit transfers etc, setting 
policy from what should happen with /22s, stopping transfers (so people 
still have to pay LIR fees, one per /22 etc).

Since it's actually the post-exhaustion /22 we're after why not do this:

The post-exhaustion /22 comes with a fee that is equivalent to the LIR 
fee. If a LIR contains one post-exhaustion /22, then this fee is waived.

Doesn't this just solve the problem everybody is arguing about? Now all of 
a sudden it's not cheap to get multiple /22s, and we don't care any more 
if people keep their LIRs open or not, it still costs the same.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se