[ncc-services-wg] Policy proposal for services to legacy Internet resource holders

On 29.08.2012, at 21:58 , Carsten Schiefner wrote:

> Hi Nick,
> 
> On 29.08.2012 19:33, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> On 29/08/2012 17:09, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>>> in addition to ideas stated here to take
>>> away our legacy IP allocations and give us /22s and force us to use NAT and
>>> reengineer our 10,000 node university networks
>> 
>> No idea where this idea came from.  No-one has ever suggested this or even
>> remotely implied it.  Quite the opposite in fact.
> 
> may I suggest you re-read Michael Markstaller's posting of Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:06:08 +0200? It's archived at:
> 
> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2012-August/001738.html


[Personal title disclaimer as usual]

I read that too and felt reminded of similar proposals over the years. None of these have made it past initial discussion in the community for a fair number of reasons. The discussions are archived and available to everyone. Of course there is a danger that such proposals may gain more traction now that nobody can ignore any longer that we will reach the final /8 soon. However I am optimistic and I do believe that our community is more mature than to fall for that or into that trap. We will experience all sorts of ugly things for a period, but this is not one of them.

Daniel
who had pledged not to engage in addresspolicy discussions anymore, but this is "services", right? ;-)
At least I will call it a day for now.