I rather suspect we will have this conversation again in another oh .. five or six years and let’s then see.

--srs

From: Leo Vegoda <leo@vegoda.org>
Sent: Monday, 03 August 2026 22:11:44
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>; Jeroen Massar <jeroen@massar.ch>; Serge Droz <serge.droz@first.org>; denis walker <ripedenis@gmail.com>; security-wg@ripe.net <security-wg@ripe.net>
Subject: Re: [Security-wg] Abuse mailboxes are increasingly no longer monitored and are being replaced by (bad) forms

On 3 Aug 2026, at 17:34, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

You can do math at current and/or projected usage levels. I doubt future usage levels are going to be as easily estimated. \

If each RIR got a new /12 every year it would take a century to fill up the current /3.

And there are other /3s.

Allocating that much address space would require a lot of extra people even with some excellent automation.

Regards,

Leo