[address-policy-wg] Policy Proposal : "Run Out Fairly"

On 07.04 20:58, Remco van Mook wrote:
> 
> Dear Daniel, dear all,
> 
> First of all I support this proposal, and thank you for taking the time to
> create it. I think the idea has great merit, but I?m also reminded of an
> idea I sent out to the address policy mailing list and the feedback I got
> based on that. For that thread, see:
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2008/msg00501.
> html . Just to refresh your memory, I proposed a policy that would only
> allocate a single block of space, regardless of the size of the request and
> available remaining inventory. One of the main shortcomings of my idea was
> that assignments from a new allocation don?t happen in a ?gradual? way,
> which is one of the main assumptions behind any scheme based on
> time-windows. Larger organizations will just come back quicker ? not
> necessarily after the set window. I?m afraid this proposal has the same
> ?weakness?.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Remco

That can be so, but still the requests will be chopped up so that others
can get in the queue rather than being pre-empted by a huge request.

Daniel