[address-policy-wg] 2016-03 New Policy Proposal (Locking Down the Final /8 Policy)

> On 17 May 2016, at 14:52, Sascha Luck [ml] <apwg at c4inet.net> wrote:
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> So it puts new entrants at a competitive disadvantage to existing LIRs?

It has been that way ever since SRI first started doling out Class A, B and C blocks in the 1980s.

No matter what the prevailing policy might be, new LIRs are by definition going to be disadvantaged because the NCC and the RIR system more generally has a far smaller (and almost empty) pool of IPv4 address space to allocate from. Get over it. We can’t conjure up an infinite supply of IPv4 space to give everyone at least as much as they think they need. The only question now is to decide what’s the best or least worst to share that pain of distributing what’s left.