<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16.04.2016 12.29, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:remco.vanmook@gmail.com">remco.vanmook@gmail.com</a> wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:57121420.6614c20a.ebfb5.4312@mx.google.com" type="cite">This confusion has been haunting the final /8 policy from day one - it was never about what to do with specifically 185/8, but what to do with all future allocations from the moment we needed to start allocating out of it. The policy text itself was never limited to a single /8, nor was that limitation any part of the discussion. </blockquote> I looked up the policy proposal at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2010-02">https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2010-02</a> " <meta charset="utf-8"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.88px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This proposal describes how the RIPE NCC should distribute IPv4 address space from the final /8 address block it receives from the IANA." Reading the rest of the proposal I fully understand the confusion and find it hard to read your interpretation into the proposal. The updated policy after this proposal can be found in RIPE 509 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-509#----use-of-last----for-pa-allocations">https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-509#----use-of-last----for-pa-allocations</a> * <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.88px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The following policies come into effect as soon as RIPE NCC is required to make allocations from the final /8 it receives from the IANA. It does not discuss the event where RIPE NCC gets more address space and could allocate from - which would strictly speaking not be allocation from the last /8 Tracing the policy text trough the versions - This text was first removed between * RIPE 599 published on 20 December 2013 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-599#Use-last-for-PA-Allocations">https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-599#Use-last-for-PA-Allocations</a> and * RIPE 604 - published on 4 Feb 2014: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-604">https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-604</a> Where the text was changed to: <meta charset="utf-8"> <ol style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: decimal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.88px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: list-item; max-width: 700px;">The size of the allocation made will be exactly one /22.</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: list-item; max-width: 700px;">The sum of all allocations made to a single LIR by the RIPE NCC after the 14th of September 2012 is limited to a maximum of 1024 IPv4 addresses (a single /22 or the equivalent thereof).</li> </ol> and no reference to the last /8. So I can easily understand the confusion. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Hans Petter Holen Mobile +47 45 06 60 54 | <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hph@oslo.net">hph@oslo.net</a> | <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hph.oslo.net">http://hph.oslo.net</a> </pre> </body> </html>