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Hi,

So .. replying to myself :wink:

Proposed solution:

> You make a new lir to get a /22 ok, then you cannot sell the ip 
> address
> space.
> If the lir is for whatever reason closed the ip address space should 
> be
> requested back.
> Nobody will create a new lir for a /22 and pay the fees required if 
> the
> address space given it`s tied to that lir, it will just be to 
> expensive.

I would love to live in a world where this solution works.

When you forbid a product which has customer (buying IP space, drugs, 
other) all you are doing is moving the problem to an un-regulated market 
where the buyer (the innocent network who NEEDS the IP space and is down 
the wall) is going to be abused  (US prohibition / war on drugs).

While I morally totally agree with the principle, I can not see how it 
can be applied in a way which does not create more problems than it 
fixes.

Thomas