* Marco Schmidt <mschmidt@ripe.net> [2015-05-11 13:48]:
Dear colleagues,
The draft document for the proposal described in 2015-01, "Alignment of Transfer Requirements for IPv4 Allocations" has been published.
The impact analysis that was conducted for this proposal has also been published.
Let's do this. The proposal will prevent a lot of what is going on today especially with the M&A changes that the executive board did come up with. Everyone can see the allocation numbers in the RIPE Labs article. The number of LIRs closed on member request in 2014 is as high as the *whole* amount of LIRs closed in the years before. The amount of LIRs closed in 2014 as a whole more than doubled from 2013. This abuse of the last-/8 policy is only going to get worse and I think it will accelerate in speed. We can always extend the policy to close other loopholes later if they come up. But right now I think we should stop this behaviour ASAP. This counts as support. Regards Sebastian -- GPG Key: 0x93A0B9CE (F4F6 B1A3 866B 26E9 450A 9D82 58A2 D94A 93A0 B9CE) 'Are you Death?' ... IT'S THE SCYTHE, ISN'T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE SCYTHE. -- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant