[address-policy-wg] ISPs selling IP address space

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Gert Doering wrote:
> Actually we decided on one of the last RIPE meetings to obsolete the
> "charging by local IRs" document, because the majority seemed to believe
> that "the market will rule this" - if one ISP charges too much, people
> will go and find an alternative.

Sigh.  And I thought IP addresses were a global resource, with a bit 
nobler motivations and goals to recommend or mandate that the ISPs 
don't screw their customers on something they get for free.  Live and 
learn..

It seems this matter needs to be taken up in the local telecom 
legislation..

If the end users had realistic possibilities to obtain routable PI, 
there would not be such a concern, because the ISPs could not create a 
lock-in situation (or force to renumber or use NAT).. But now this 
seems like a problem.

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