Hi everybody, This policy proposal gets +1 support from me, a rookie. My little experience is so recent but so clear: RIPE wants to burn out this resources or at least make this resources available does not matter to who. Maybe someone thinks this way will be the IPv6 time or maybe someone owns a lot of resources and wants to make much more money from them for a while... don't know. Too young in this to understand, anyway this looks to me slightly far from the spirit of the last /8 policy I read. I think the support of the policy would be correct but it can certainly higher the market price and if there is no way to stop big player this could be converted in a mess. Thee proposal is a good start but I think the community needs something better. I would go this way: - approve 24 months holding time - forbid companies (not LIRs) holding more than one /22 if they already hold resources before allocated before /8 policy Older resource holder allocated before /8 policy had the chance in the past to request resources for sligtly lower costs. They are in the market and they have experience in routing and managin IPs, they should (must) start IPv6 deployment as an example for others. kind regards Riccardo Gori