Refuse een assignment because it 'cannot' be routed?

> My analogy would be that unless you pay tripple rent you are not allowed
> to sub-let (connect more PCs with official addresses, atough you could
> always
> get married (NAT)) or start a small shop in your garage (put up a Warez
> sorry
> Web server)

No! no! no!  :)
I only want a fixed frontdoor (1 fixed IP address), but I am trying to force
my landlord into letting me have it without paying tripple rent, by asking
the government (RIPE) to give me a building permission to install more
doors. Not because I want more doors, but to keep the landlord from moving
my single door every day :)


> Moving from a volume charge service (dialup) to a fixed fee service (DSL)
> I do not find it that unreasonable to in some way limit the amout of
> Internet
> you can consume.

I agree totally, but that is not my point. The point is that currently among
all ADSL providers in my area, I can only choose between
- package A: 1 dynamic IP, 1 or 10 GB traffic/month, no servers etc.
and
- package B: 1 static IP, 25 GB traffic/month or more, guaranteed minimum
speed, web/mail server allowed, router+webspace+mailboxes included etc.

Package A is fine for me, except the dynamic IP. I do not want to run
servers or connect multiple computers (unless by using NAT). I want to
connect through a firewall that only allows connections based on source IP
address.


> I have always assumed that IP addresses is a comodity ISPs hand out with
> their services. If you buy service from an ISP then you get a reasonable
> number
> of IP addresses to use that service. If you buy a singe-user service, you
> get
> 1 IP address, if you buy a LAN service you get several addresses.

Again I totally agree, but this is not the case in my area, imho.


> If you don't buy the right kind of service from me, I am not going to
> acknowledge
> your IP address request.

I am indeed afraid that this will be the ISPs' opinions, so I (sorry: the
customer :)) guess threatening to go to the competition is the only way. But
if there is no competitor offering what the customer wants, it's going to be
a meaningless threat...


thanks for your opinions,
Herbert