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

On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:

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>> ... Keep /22 possibility so the
>> complete runout of IPv4 won't be postponed.
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> See above. I do not see the point about 'complete runout'. We *have* run
> out already. This is about the very very tail end.

Allow me to disagree.
People are still getting IPv4 addresses from the  NCC. "Declaring runout" 
is not exactly the same as stopping handing out IPv4 addresses.

Even when the pools reach ZERO, if 1000 LIRs stop paying fees (and that's 
only one example/route), the "runout" will be temporarily reverted, and 
handing out IPv4 addresses will be again, in theory, possible.

The "reversion" won't happen if there is a policy in place stating 
RIPE NCC will not allocate any more IPv4 addresses -- who wants to 
propose that? I don't.

Disclaimer: I have been advocating and deploying IPv6 since ~2001. I just 
think reducing by decree/policy the ability of people to use/deploy IPv4 
is not the correct way to go.


Cheers,
Carlos



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