> If you can convince the RIRs that it's feasible to relax the > allocation criteria for IPv4 blocks, Keith Just what would you suggest in the way of relaxing? The basic rule is now - if you (the requester) can show you are going to use the space you can get it. Relaxing from that would seem to indicate that the RIR should provide more space than the requester thinks they can use. That does not seem like a real good idea. Scott