[address-policy-wg] Comment on IPv4 depletion rate for proposal 2015-05

Hi,

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 04:40:03PM +0200, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016, at 14:12, Aled Morris wrote:
> > I am troubled by the new members joining RIPE purely to obtain IPv4
> > address space.
> > 
> > Perhaps (shields up!) RIPE could simply offer /22 for purchase at the same
> > price as membership (???3,400 i.e. joining fee + 1 year subs) to anyone who
> > wants one since they can get one anyway by joining.
> > 
> > It would save the admin overheads and would identify members as those
> > actually committed to performing as LIRs.
> 
> Great idea !
> I would actually like to have NCC's opinion on that one.  
> For now, I have the impression that the administrative overhead is just
> a pretext to be able to say "nonono, we DO NOT sell IPv4 addresses".

This is a horrible idea, tbh.

The RIPE NCC is a *membership* organization, so "sell off stuff" is totally 
not in line with the NCC's mission of providing numbers to members.

Gert Doering
        -- APWG chair
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