On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Tore Anderson wrote:
If we re-instate needs-based allocation, I'd expect that the RIPE NCC's remaining IPv4 pool would evaporate completely more or less over-night. The ~18 million IPv4 addresses in the RIPE NCC's pool are likely not nearly enough to cover the latent unmet need that has been building in the region since the «last /8 policy» was implemented.
Looking at http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/ (figure 28e) the RIPE allocation rate was around 2-3 /8:s per year at the time of the last /8 policy kicked into effect, so the ~18 million addresses would be gone in a matter of days, at the same rate that LIRs could create applications and send them in. So apart from a few people, most of us agree that any attempt at changing policy in the more liberal direction is doomed to fail miserably. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se