+1 to this policy. Arash Naderpour
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016, at 10:42, Lu Heng wrote: > > As I understand, more and more end user are becoming LIR as their ISP > > refuse to give them IP, therefore it fundamentally changed the > > very definition of LIR. > > > > The outbreak in the member mailing list last time reminds us how big that > > group could be. > > > > What current ISP doing nowadays, instead of charging customer and apply > to > > RIPE for their customer's IP, they ask their customer come to RIPE to > > become their own LIR and get their own IP then manage it for the > customer. > > In which, results what we see today, shipping companies, banks, even > > airlines become LIR. > > Hi, > > This is exactly the point where the community failed. We keep saying > that there is no more IPv4, and in the meanwhile more and more companies > (non-ISP) discover that they can still get their needed IPv4 space, with > the bonus of becoming provider independent. In the process of doing > this, they "eat up" a /22 even if they only need a /23 or a /24 (or > less, but that can't be routed). > > At the same time they still hear (for more than 10 years already) that > IPv6 is coming, but still don't see it "coming close enough" (no, they > don't really care about Google, FB, and Netflix - and if they do, it's > more about how to block them). > >
