This confusion has been haunting the final /8 policy from day one - it was never about what to do with specifically 185/8, but what to do with all future allocations from the moment we needed to start allocating out of it. The policy text itself was never limited to a single /8, nor was that limitation any part of the discussion.
Remco Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN" <[email protected]> To: "Randy Bush" <[email protected]>, "Marco Schmidt" <[email protected]> Cc: "RIPE address policy WG" <[email protected]> Subject: [address-policy-wg] 2015-05 Discussion Period extended until 13 May 2016 (Last /8 Allocation Criteria Revision) Date: Sat, Apr 16, 2016 11:53 On Thu, Apr 14, 2016, at 19:24, Randy Bush wrote: > the purpose of the single last /8 allocation was to allow NEW ENTRY. The *single* "last /8" (185.0.0.0/8) is still reserved to what most people consider new entry. Further allocations would be from recovered space, which can also serve "new entry". Did you actually read the new text ? > pigs coming back to the trough every 18 months is not new anything. No, it's not. It'a actually commonplace in the other RIRs. -- Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN fr.ccs
