On Wed, Apr 20, 2016, at 12:50, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
IIRC, the triggering of the "last /8" policy (as it has usually been known) did not coincide with receipt of 185/8 from (NB: not "by") IANA by RIPE NCC, but rather with the first allocation by RIPE NCC from 185/8.
185/8 received from IANA on feb. 2011 185/8 went "in use" (and the policy started) on sept 2012
As Roger Jørgensen has explained, once the policy was triggered, it was to apply to all subsequent allocations.
However, in the meantime some events happened: - recovered space issue - space returned to IANA 2012-05 to 2014-04 and gradually returned starting 2014-05 - 2013-03 - no need checking - 2014-04 - no ipv6 requirement - still keeping a high (~= /8) level of "somehow available space" - policy abuse, pushing to limits and general change in "who is a LIR" (get-to-transfer, multi-LIR/company, out-of-continent LIRs - more and more of them, corporate LIRs or simply "just want my damn ASN and /24" LIRs) I hope everybody does realize how this proposal came to life.