[address-policy-wg] New on RIPE Labs: 1, 000 /22 Allocated from Last /8

* Shane Kerr

> On Tuesday, 2013-02-05 16:21:51 +0000, 
> Nigel Titley <nigel at titley.com> wrote:
>>> Should we tweak the policy now to make it harder to get IPv4 address
>>> space, or wait a few years? It seems slightly unfair to future
>>> entrants, but the whole IPv4 allocation model has always vastly
>>> favored early entrants, so perhaps we shouldn't worry about it yet.
>>>
>> Deckchairs... deckchairs...
> 
> Do we care about allowing new entrants or not?
> 
> If we don't, then we should scrap the last /8 policy, give the entire
> block out in one big allocation to MyHugeTelco.tld and be done with it.
> 
> If we do, then we should try to make sure that the policy actually
> works. I admit to looking at a very short period of time, but it looks
> like new companies are not going to have any options for IPv4 space in
> a few years.
> 
> IPv4 allocation policy tweaks do seem mostly pointless, but they won't
> be pointless to the start-up founded 4 or 5 years from now, who is
> trying to connect to IPv4-only users. And who knows, maybe that
> start-up will be the next Google or Wikipedia, and it will matter to
> the rest of us too if they succeed or not....

I'm not sure I follow the argument here.

Wouldn't making it harder to obtain a «last /8» IPv4 block increase the
likelihood of your «next Google» failing, because they couldn't obtain
the IPv4 space they needed to be successful?

-- 
Tore Anderson