[address-policy-wg] Hoarding /22 out of 185/8

On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015, at 07:52, Tore Anderson wrote:
>> * -TOM- <tom at kebab.org.pl>
>>
>>> This means, thatdealings with opening multiple LIR's, get their /22
>>> allocation and merge this 'new lir's' with other 'host lir' is now in
>>> progress at full throttle :(
>>
>> Indeed, this person appears to be using the LIR merger procedure, *not*
>> the transfer procedure, to gather the /22s in his main LIR. At least I
>> could not find any of the blocks in question mentioned on
>> <https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-transfers-and-mergers/ipv4-transfers/table-of-transfers>.
>
> Which probbaly means revising the text of 2015-01, and/or adding
> something similar to the merger procedure.
> Then again, some basic "needs checking" (checking that the requestor
> DOES NEED an allocation) would probably help too.


"Need" shouldn't be a criteria anymore, as we're in 
"scarcity-mode"/"run-out" mode...

One idea could be: «If the LIR doesn't have any other IPv4 allocation 
made by the RIPE/NCC (before the run-out phase) besides the /22, if a 
merge process is needed, the /22 is automatically returned to the pool».


Cheers,
Carlos