On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:14:37PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
This is an extraordinarily discriminatory position.
In fact I find it not just to be unfair, but dramatically anti- competitive as the LIRs could be seen as harbouring the remaining IPv4 address space for members of their own club.
Good point, if someone were to take that to court or the competition commissar.
By rejecting this proposal, this discrimination against End User requirements will be permanently enshrined in RIPE policy and that they won't get the opportunity to apply for reclaimed address space in future. Again, I find this to compound the implicit unfairness of excluding them in the first place.
Possible compromise: make *returned/reclaimed* PI assignments available for assignment as PI rather than using them to make up patchwork PA allocations... rgds, Sascha Luck