Returns to the RIPE pool are unlikely to happen. IPv4 addresses are in short supply. There is always a buyer. From the point of view of the resource holder, it is better to monetize held addresses than to return them without any further benefit... There is no point in lying that the per-resource model will make IPv4 accessible to other (new) members. It will not happen. And it's not worth trying to solve it somehow. It's dead-horse ride. - Daniel On 3/30/24 8:53 PM, Mihail Fedorov wrote:
There was no proposal of any “deallocation” in this thread. Only gradually creating flat fee based on number of addresses, regardless if it’s legacy resource or not. Any company of any size willing to lower fee will be motivated to review it’s IP usage policy and to sell or return addresses they do not use.