[members-discuss] [Ticket#2012072401002498] Top 20 LIRs use 33% Allocated PA, 88% of LIRs use 10% Allocated PA.

> If you consume water, you don't pay support ticket, 
> you pay liters of water.

Depends on where you live - that's not the case in all locations or all countries - in the UK most people pay a flat *minimal* fee for their water (mine is £114/year) no matter how much you "consume"

> IPs, PI, PA, AS are public resources

In your opinion.

> Most of big operators ask to end users something like 

Connectivity is not the only valid use of IP addresses, all those things you're connecting *to* need them - your "under construction" webpage is on a machine with an ip ...

The post office don’t charge for a postcode  (necessary to deliver your mail in most countries) and the is a finite number of those - they make their money to pay for the database management of postcode through other services which are *optional*.

Rob