> Just what would you suggest in the way of relaxing? since I view this as a hypothetical situation anyway (and one that isn't likely to happen in the real world) I don't think it's necessary to pin down exactly how they'd go about relaxing the criteria - only to realize that it is possible to relax those criteria.they could ask for less money, or less supporting evidence, or they could give out bigger blocks. whatever. note that I didn't say it was a good idea to do this. but if, as some people assert, the v4 address shortage is a myth - then I'd be happy to try to work on getting people to move away from NAT. personally I still believe there's some substance to the address shortage. but I'd love to find out that this isn't the case.