Address space for individuals

Local IRs,

I planned to attend the Local IR WG meeting at RIPE last Tuesday, but
the meeting was moved to yesterday, the same time as the Mbone WG
meeting (where I had to be for "chairing reasons"). And I forgot all
about it...

As Last Resort IR for The Netherlands I received a request for address
space (one C network) from an individual. The person requesting address
space tells me he has several machines at home able to talk IP and he
wants to interconnect them.

Since he has plans to connect his LAN at home to the Internet some day in
the future he asks for an official IP network number (which means RFC1597
is of no help in this case).

IMHO, this is a question which we will see in an increasingly frequency
in the near future. Think of what happens if IP functionality is built in
to Microsoft software...

I'd like to know whether you have received requests like this before,
and how you aproached this issue, since I think "we all" should have a
common attitude in Europe (better: world-wide) on this.

Thanks for your concern.

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Erik-Jan.