[address-policy-wg] 2017-03 New Policy Proposal (Reducing Initial IPv4 Allocation, aiming to preserve a minimum of IPv4 space)

On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, Randy Bush wrote:

>> Looks to me that there is still IPv4 space being returned, the
>> run-rate on 185/8 is constant, we have approximately 4-5 years to go?
>
> and you believe that there will be zero desirable ipv4 destinations on the
> internet by then?  sure does not look like it as far as i can see.

I agree.

> and if a new entrant needs to reach the remaining ipv4 internet, ...?

Then they have to buy addresses in the market. I keep running into people 
who claim "look, RIPE is not out of IPv4 addresses, the IPv4 exhaustion is 
just a hype/FUD". They won't stop until RIPE is really out. If this 
happens in 4-5 years, I'm fine with that. That means they had 8-10 years 
from we actually ran out to understand.

We (the RIPE community) has had a quite balanced and approach to this and 
enabled new entrants in the mean time. We can't stretch this out forever. 
The stone is bled dry, and that's just the way it is.

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