[address-policy-wg] 2019-02 New Policy Proposal (Reducing IPv4 Allocations to a /24)

Hello Francis and Jim,

> We do not agree with this proposal. 
> 
> Sooner or later RIPE IPv4 address space will run out. Moving from /22
> to /24 will not change that, which is the essence of the question, but
> doing so will create more fragmentation (BGP, smaller LIRS, cost
> unfairness between members...). 
> 
> In practical terms, we believe this will also boost IP broker market
> (the smaller the blocks, the stronger IP brokers will get).
> 
> Current policy is a good compromise: it focus on allocating to LIRs
> that assign and use address space ...until no more allocation can be
> done.

It seems you misunderstand the proposal. This policy agrees with you that /22s should be allocated until RIPE NCC runs out. It is about what happens afterwards. We create a waiting list with either /22 or /24 allocation size.

- Choosing /22 means that the waiting list is unmanageable and therefore (mostly) useless.
- Choosing /24 means that the waiting list is manageable and a bit less useless.

We're not suggesting to change the allocation size now, only for the waiting list.

Cheers,
Sander