[address-policy-wg] RIPE IPv4 Allocation Policy

Hi Walter,

On 28/08/15 13:17, SBS - Support wrote:
> That is like running away from responsibility of policing usage based on
> need and promoting illicit IP trading. If need is justified there has to
> be a process to allocate additional IP resources.

Have you seen what's happened in North America recently? I don't think
that is a good news situations for small/new ISPs, and yet the story for
bigger ISPs doesn't seem to have changed as a result. Anyone trading IPs
(illegitimate or legitimately) is likely to be rather happy about the
situation, too.

Now that we have an example of what happens when you run out of IPv4
without 'running down fairly', one would hope it's clearer now why the
policy is in place.

Best regards,

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Tom Hill
Network Engineer

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