Hi,

At the last RIPE meeting I tried to get community consensus on a statement to 
make it clear what the best way is to use the last remaining IPv4 addresses. 
Consensus in the plenary failed and the feedback I got was that we needed 
something stronger. And then I forgot about it...

So far, I have come up with the following statement:

"""
It is important to realise that there isn't any IPv4 space left; the RIPE NCC 
has a small reserve to allow new members to get a /22 so they can start up a 
business, to bootstrap and to communicate with the legacy Internet. But this is 
not something anybody can build their future on. The only way to survive in the 
future is to implement IPv6 from the start.  It is not sustainable to build an 
IPv4-only network anymore. The best current operational practice is to build 
IPv6 networks and have translation mechanisms to IPv4, and that is the only 
sustainable way forward. Anything else will require increasing investments in a 
declining technology.
"""

I think it's not good enough, but I lack inspiration to make it better. I would 
appreciate help from this task force.

Cheers,
Sander

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