<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 April 2016 at 20:41, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ripe-wgs@radu-adrian.feurdean.net" target="_blank">ripe-wgs@radu-adrian.feurdean.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Basically: there is a race. If you are an old competitor, you can<br>
compete as usual. If you are a new one (less that 3 years), you start<br>
with 10L of fuel and you get a 30 sec penalty every time you refill.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The question is, should RIPE be trying to "level the playing field" i.e. interfering in the market? Would it even work if they tried?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The argument has been well made that RIPE's role in dishing out IP addresses should be just that - making sure that there will be addresses to give when new members need them, not playing politics, re-jigging the pool of free addresses to "fix" a business problem that a subset of the members believe they are suffering.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm reminded of government intervention to "fix" the problems of broadband availability where rural areas feel they are disadvantaged. The result? hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money wasted on crap satellite internet connections. Nobody wins.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Aled<br></div></div>