[members-discuss] [comms] [ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Members and Multiple

Hello,
> On 17.02.2016, at 15:43, Lu Heng <h.lu at anytimechinese.com> wrote:
> 
> Guys:
> 
> take the wealth of rich people, distribute it amount everybody, and
> everybody get fair share and working for a central planning economy,
> does it sound familiar if you happen to be from one of communist
> countries?(I heard that quite often as I was born in one of communist
> countries, although if it is still communist are very debatable.)

this is not the point.
The point is, that the current situation is hindering IPv6 adoption, as exactly the players that could invest in v6 are investing in v4. So we want to direct this energy into the conversion towards IPv6. 

The notion of rich and poor was introduced that the current situation, or any regulated situation, might make a different impact in the different parts of the RIPE NCC service region. There are countries that can afford buying new equipment, or extra address space, and some don’t.

This would enlarge the digital divide even further, and this can’t be in any interest of a common internet.

And RIPE NCC isn’t just a bookkeeper, otherwise there would never have been a distribution policy. RIPE NCC polices address usage, and therefor distribution. Any situation with a central authority could be described as centrally planned economy, but it isn’t. It is just the establishment of order through a common administrative body.

Matthias