Maybe it&#39;d be a grand idea to not extrapolate based on current usage trends. <div><br></div><div>We just don&#39;t know what&#39;s going to turn up in the future - maybe 20..40 years or less down the line, and would hate to see history repeating itself.<br>
<br>And if v4 and v6 exhaustion were the only reason to care about allocating number resources to rogue entities, I&#39;d not care as much as I do about this.</div><div><br></div><div>--srs</div><div><span></span><br>On Thursday, February 7, 2013, Gert Doering  wrote:<br>
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I can do math (and learned that from experience).<br>
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Can you?<br>
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If a rogue LIR gets a fresh /29 every week, paying a full RIPE membership<br>
fee each time, RIPE&#39;s /12 will last about 2500 years.<br>
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And then, there&#39;s about 500 more /12s inside FP 001, and *then*, we get<br>
about 6 more tries to make a more conservative IPv6 allocation policy.<br>
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Should I care?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>-- <br>--srs (iPad)<br>