On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Elvis Daniel Velea wrote:
a. the members that have received resources before 2012 + the members that
can afford to 'buy' IP addresses allocated until recently (-2y from the date
this policy proposal would be implemented)
b. the members that have only received resources after September 2012 and can
not afford to buy IP IP addresses at the market prices (but they can buy an
unlimited number of these from the RIPE NCC at ~€4,5 (€3,4/1st year +
€1,4/2nd year - redistribution of profit)
Correct.
These post-2012 members would have ZERO IPv4 addresses from RIPE NCC if it
wasn't for the Last /8 policy, we would have completely exhausted in 2012
without this policy.
So they were only able to get addresses at all because these addresses
were saved to be used under different policy, thus under restrictions.
I was one of the proponents of this. I have subsequently changed my mind
and I am now of the opinion that we should not have any /8 policy at all,
and just hand out the rest of the IPv4 space to current LIRs and let the
market handle the rest. It's obvious from the discussions here that most
people do not appreciate the intention behind the last-/8 policy, and our
attempts to try to help new entrants into the market has failed.
So let's just get it over with and exhaust all the rest of RIPE NCC free
addresses immediately by some scheme to divvy up whatever free resources
are left to the members and after that, let all restrictions go.
If we're actually exhausted then some people might get on with deploying
IPv6, I hear some people not deploying because they see that RIPE isn't
completely exhausted yet.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
