Hi
On 16 Apr 2016, at 02:23, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 08:27:00PM +0300, Momchil Petrov wrote: The situation seems to me big-LIR don't allow new-LIR to grow up... is this cartel or something
There is no way a "new-LIR" can grow to, say, a /12 level that some of the big and old Telcos have - which is unfortunate, but we did not make IPv4 with these short addresses.
Let me add something, if you have a business need /12 and your business can not even raise 10m in cash, seriously, I think there is something wrong with it. So no, new people can still grow to whatever size they want, maybe 10-15% more investment than the "good old time", but anyone who have done investment would tell you in exchange for a successful business, 10-15% more is tolerateble.
To the contrary: *because* the policy is so restrictive, "new-LIR" can have a business at all - if we had no last-/8 restrictions, RIPE NCC would have run out of addresses over a year ago, so "nothing at all" for new-LIRs.
Which is more fair?
(And we have this restrictive policy because the *old* LIRs restricted themselves(!) from eating up all the space, leaving something for the new LIRs to come)
Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?
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