This confusion has been haunting the final /8 policy from day one - it was never about what to do with specifically 185/8, but what to do with all future allocations from the moment we needed to start allocating out of it. The policy text itself was never limited to a single /8, nor was that limitation any part of the discussion.

Remco

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From: "Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN" <ripe-wgs@radu-adrian.feurdean.net>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>, "Marco Schmidt" <mschmidt@ripe.net>
Cc: "RIPE address policy WG" <address-policy-wg@ripe.net>
Subject: [address-policy-wg] 2015-05 Discussion Period extended until 13 May 2016 (Last /8 Allocation Criteria Revision)
Date: Sat, Apr 16, 2016 11:53

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016, at 19:24, Randy Bush wrote:
> the purpose of the single last /8 allocation was to allow NEW ENTRY.

The *single* "last /8"  (185.0.0.0/8) is still reserved to what most
people consider new entry. 
Further allocations would be from recovered space, which can also serve
"new entry".
Did you actually read the new text ?

> pigs coming back to the trough every 18 months is not new anything.

No, it's not. It'a actually commonplace in the other RIRs.

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