[address-policy-wg] [policy-announce] 2013-03 New Draft Document and Impact Analysis Published (No Need - Post-Depletion Reality Adjustment and Clean up)

But if they have to pay a price that reflects the relative scarcity of the resource they have a much stronger incentive to conserve that the alternative situation you describe. "Commercials" cannot simply provide all the addresses their customers want when they cannot replenish their stock without paying a rising price.

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> I don't understand why people confuse the elimination of needs 
> assessment with the elimination of conservation.

Because they're linked. The requirement of justifying and documenting is a lever for us today, to get serious cooperation from our clients in ordre to get their needs correctly evaluated, and /24s (or more) not being wasted in careless (and preventive) over-subscriptions of adresses.

This helps us preventing a rush to our allocation depletion and thus, from requesting the last /22. And thereafter, to create a new LIR to satisfy these needs we would let run.

Am I wrong if I suspect commercial teams would happily distribute large bunches of undocumented adresses to their asking customers if the Ripe allowed it. As far as I can see, commercials do appreciate to be able to satisfy their customers requests.