Address space for individuals

  Hank,

>pay it.  But when I recently posted in regards to our plans to charge
>customers for IP address registration I got all sorts of flames.  When

  while I don't want to join in flaming, I see some good reasons for
  people running a registry *now* for frowning at the financial
  procedures proposed or even applied unilaterally be some (only a very
  few?) Last Resort Registries.
  
  I'm definitely feeling worried when a Last-Resort-Registry, run by a
  Service Provider *upon it's own voluntary decision* starts charging for
  allocating addresses. I wonder whether there isn't some incentive (at
  least conceavably :-) to be quite generous...
  
  At the same time, running a Service-Provider Registry for an academic
  community, we are not able to suggest to our clientele that we are
  providing them withg a service that has a financial value after all...
  
  So, I'd really like to see this sorted out soon!
  And anything that is agreed on should equally fit the commercial ISP
  registries as well as the "not for profit" ones.
  
  Wilfried.
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