Hi Arash,
I understand your point, but this already happened with other RIRs and they have no "cheap" pool to fulfil new requests, what happened them and to the prices in their region? Do we have many intra-RIR transfers from RIPE region to other RIRs today?
Good question. I'm sure the NCC will include such numbers I their presentation next week. I'm curious about that as well.
Luckily we still have an /8 in RIPE (and thanks to the old community members for that), but 2016-03 cannot make that much change on draining rate. And I don't think that the pool is that much drained by traders. Yes there is a percentage drained by traders, but comparing to the actual users that's not that much to put this kind of restriction. (We also have enough other restrictions in place)
Thanks for setting a good example of how to discuss policy proposal effects in a civil way. I completely understand your reasoning, and this is useful feedback. Thank you! Sander (After all that has happened on this list recently I felt I had to encourage good discussions as well. I don't want to sound negative all the time :)