There are 16,777,216 IPv4 addresses in a /8. Many companies lease those addresses for $10 per month. It is common for a broker to take one month as their annual fee in the real estate market. Given the above...that would mean a /8 leases for $167,772,160 per year, rounded to $168 million. Will AT&T and the other companies be prepared to pay ICANN that each year ? ...will that be split with Lucent ? http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space 012/8 AT&T Bell Laboratories Jun 95 ====== What about ARIN, RIPE and APNIC ? Will they be paying that each year to ICANN for *each* of the /8s they have ? ARIN 024/8, 063/8, 064/8, 065/8, 066/8, 067/8, 068/8, 069/8, 199/8, 200/8, 204/8, 205/8, 206/8, 207/8, 208/8, 209/8, 216/8 RIPE 080/8, 081/8, 193/8, 194/8, 195/8, 212/8, 213/8, 217/8, APNIC 202/8, 203/8, 210/8, 211/8, 218/8, 219/8, 220/8, 221/8 ARIN - 17 /8s - $2,852,126,720 annual fee RIPE - 8 /8s - $1,342,177,280 annual fee APNIC - 8 /8s - $1,342,177,280 annual fee ...approximately $6 billion dollars per year in revenue to ICANN... Does ICANN need that much revenue from Address Space Leasing with the $1 per domain per year fee? ....which may yield ~$50,000,000 a year... Should domain name fees subsidize address space users ? Why does ARIN pay ICANN while AT&T does not pay ICANN ? Why haven't the ICANN Directors charged all of the address space users the same ? What will China, Africa and Latin America be paying ICANN for address space ? Jim Fleming 2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB:...IPv8 is closer than you think... http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt