> is a crisis to force action. That will occur sometime after > 2010 when they need more than they already have and find that > the lease price per IPv4 address per day has been moving up > from its current averages of $1/day or $5/day depending on > contract length (a price service providers seem to have no > trouble collecting while the addresses are still Free from > IANA). IP Addresses are not property and cannot be leased or sold. The RIRs do not lease IP addresses, instead they provide the service of registering IP addresses for a fee which is directly related to the cost of the service. The number of addresses provided is not directly a cost factor and the scarcity of addresses certainly does not impact costs. Also, even though there are only 3 years supply left in IANA, to date none of the RIRs have changed their allocation policies to deal with wind-down of IPv4 space or scarcity. Certainly in some regions, there is the expectation that IPv6 will fill the gap since it has been proven with consumer and enterprise customers for the past year or two. As the wind-down of the IPv4 address space gets more public coverage, and more larcenous providers charge exorbitant fees for free addresses, I expect to see a rising public demand for IPv6. Note that this implies that we have less than 2 years to get a solid IPv6 SOHO gateway requirements document out. --Michael Dillon _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf