On 13 June 2016 at 16:15, Sylvain Vallerot <sylvain.vallerot@opdop.net> wrote:

I agree with this : remaining IPs are not intended to be used as we used to.

But they are still meant to be distributed to end users, aren't they ?

RIPE-649 "IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service Region"

Section 5.1 Allocations made by the RIPE NCC to LIRs
...
3. The LIR must confirm it will make assignment(s) from the allocation.
...

It doesn't say who these assignments are to, they could be to the LIR itself for their own use (as it will be in the case of end-users who have become LIRs purely to obtain some "psuedo-PI" address space.)

Aled