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

Dear Remco and Radu-Adrian,

On 11/05/2016 23:21, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN wrote:
>> (if any of the NCC staff wants to verify my numbers, feel free to do so)
> Please !
> Since it's not easy to find the following information:
>   - if a LIR received or not it's "last /22" (cannot distinguish from one
>   that get it and sold it)
>   - if a LIR has performed an "outbound" transfer or not
> Thanks.
>
>
>
Thank you for your questions. We have some numbers to help the discussion.

As of today, 8,831 of our 13,755 members have requested a final /22 IPv4 
allocation under the last /8 policy.

This means that there are currently 4,924 LIRs that may still request a 
/22 allocation. This figure includes LIRs that opened recently — if we 
look only at older members, there are currently 4,791 LIRs that have 
been open for more than six months and still haven’t requested their 
final IPv4 allocation.

We also note that the proposal introduces limits around transfers. 
Currently we count 723 LIRs that have transferred IPv4 resources to 
another entity and so would not qualify for future allocations under the 
proposal.

Regarding how long the available pool will last, we estimate a period of 
around five years under the current policy. In the next few days, we 
will publish a RIPE Labs article that will give more insight into what 
we’re basing this estimate on, such as membership development trends and 
returned IPv4 address space.

Kind regards,
Marco Schmidt
Policy Development Officer