* Fredy Kuenzler
Nope. If you look at the allocation history of the two members which received these /12, I hardly doubt they are actually going to use this space within the next 3 months. One member received a total of less than /14 within two years, and the other member got his last /14 two about years ago.
Neither of us have access to the supporting documentation for either of these two tickets, so this would be pure conjecture on your part. How knows, maybe they both have a million customers behind a CGN they plan on shutting off?
We all know that inflated allocation requests have been common habit in the past in this community but as we are going to run out within weeks or even days I do expect the hostmaster team to watch this with more care, especially when working on large requests.
I'm certain that they do. I recall reading or hearing somewhere that allocations of size /16 and larger are approved by a special committee in addition to the resource analyst that processed the request (didn't find a link though), so I feel confident that the NCC isn't arbitrarily giving out more addresses to LIRs than the request justifies. Recently, the resource analysts began working in pairs in order to further minimise the chances of inequality - see <http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion/last-8-phases>. If you have reason to believe one or both of the LIRs in question have committed fraud by forging their documentation, then I suppose that is something you should discuss directly with the NCC. -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/