poole@eunet.ch writes:
This is all going severely to fast for my taste. Essentially the decision is not to close down the last-resort registries, but not to allocate unique address space anymore except for Internet connected organisations.
This is *not* the case! Your observation is right in the sense that there is a clear *trend* in the Internet community towards a situation like this. The particular decision to abandon last-resort registries is not equal to "not allocate unique address space anymore except for Internet connected organisations". All the remaining registries remain free to allocate to non-connected organisations. See ripe-127 for details.
There are perfectly good reasons why an organisation might want unique (but not necessarily globably routable) address space, RFC1597 doesn't provide this.
I agree with you. However, these organisations should also be aware that such address space may not be automatically routable on the Internet. Again see ripe-127 for details. Again: Abandoning last-resort registries does not mean that it will be impossible to obtain public address space without an Internet connection. Yes it will become more difficult and end-users will be warned better about whaqt they are getting. Daniel