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Re:250M-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released by sgjohnson on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:23PM (#39317493)
RIPE hands out a /29 to any member without any requirements. For anything beyond a /29 you need to prove that you actually need it, but /29s they hand out like candies. As a LIR you can then lease out /32s. And when you run out of space to lease, request more space.

I know a guy with 15x /29s.

I actually find this scary too, but I mean, it’s /29s, not /8s.

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Re:250M-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released by growse on Friday February 09, 2024 @02:31PM (#39319324)
It is quite expensive to be a full member of RIPE though. Most people with smaller requirements can go through a sponsoring LIR to get PI space (like a /48).
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