In the VCF 9.0 networking model, IP Quotas are the primary governance mechanism for controlling resource consumption within an Organization. When a Provider allocates IP blocks to an Organization, the Organization Administrator is responsible for sub-allocating those resources to individual projects or environments. To prevent non-production workloads from exhausting the pool of public (external) IP addresses, the administrator must Create an IP Quota specifically for the non-production Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This quota defines the maximum number of public IP addresses that can be used for services such as Load Balancers or NAT rules within that specific VPC. Once the quota is reached, any further requests for public IPs in that VPC will be denied by the VCF Automation engine, ensuring that a sufficient supply remains available for production-critical workloads. Modifying the provider-shared quota (Option C) would affect the entire organization, and removing external blocks (Option D) would break existing connectivity rather than provide proactive governance.