[address-policy-wg] The final /8 policy proposals, part 3.2

Thu Sep 17 19:38:06 CEST 2009

>> Agree for as long as there are addresses enough to meet the applicants 
>> needs. Yet it is IMHO pointless to hand out micro-blocks as a sorry 
>> response to a PA-request for a substantially larger block.

* michael.dillon at bt.com (michael.dillon at bt.com) [Thu 17 Sep 2009, 17:13 CEST]:
>In particular, what if the applicant's competitor just received a much 
>larger allocation two weeks earlier?

Same thing that happens when the person in front of you in the line at 
the cafetaria at work takes that last cupcake: you're outta luck.

This is also why nobody has proposed to go back and yank valid 
assignments, no matter if they are two weeks or two decades old.

	-- Niels.