[members-discuss] why is it proving impossible to gain IP sapce

>> Network Operations Centre Analyst
> 
> 	Right? Then earn your wages. I will give you a hint, two actually: It's up to you to be excluded from this mailing list.

Slightly scary that there are still companies out there providing NOC/etc support, selling to large organisations, who don't notice things like:

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> If you don't want to receive emails from the RIPE NCC members-discuss
> mailing list, please log in to your LIR Portal account and go to the general page:
> https://lirportal.ripe.net/general/view
> 
> Click on "Edit my LIR details", under "Subscribed Mailing Lists". From here, you can add or remove addresses.



Back to the IPv4/IPv6 issue at hand, however, my cynical belief is that if RIPE LIRs were charged membership fees proportional to their IPv4 consumption then the massive national telcos will hand back a large amount of v4 space and NAT444 everyone.  Because they're going to have to do that anyway at the rate some of them are implementing v6 — this would just be further incentive ;)

/sarcasm mode now deactivated

Marek Isalski
Hostmaster, AS41495