You are intentionally misleading this discussion, please open a new thread about IPv6 transition and discuss this subject with whom you want to. This thread's title is clearly about the charging scheme, not about IPv4 distribution nor about IPv6 transition. On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 07:58:00PM +0300, Jean Salim wrote:
Each time there's a discussion about resource holders paying their fair share according to their resource holdings at RIPE, like other RIR, you take the discussion towards an unrelated subject that is IPv6 transition.
This is the only relevant discussion. There is not enough IPv4 available to fulfill all the demands people have - very simple math.
So whatever we do will just result in more squabbling and complaints from other people that "THIS IS ALL SO UNFAIR" - yes, this is why we made IPv6 policies where every but the most large LIRs can have more address space than they will ever need, by asking politely.
Guess what, we knew 15+ years ago that IPv4 would not last, and made policies where networks voluntarily(!) restricted themselves(!) so late comers could still have some space, to help with the transition. That space is now gone, transition has not been done, and - surprise - we see complaints that IPv4 is not distributed fairly.
Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?
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