Eliot Lear wrote: > michael.dillon@xxxxxx wrote: > >> 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. > > You have clearly not been following the efforts in APnic or RIPE to enable the inevitable trading regime. Despite what policy says people will treat their allocations as property. > > Can you show me real examples of an RIR repossessing address space? If > so, what is stopping them from reclaiming some of those /8s? The legal costs... While ARIN would have one hell of a court battle trying to reclaim 18/8, the MIT Office of the President would have no trouble recognizing they were sitting on a pile of endowed chairs, and would shoot the entire network staff if necessary to put that block on the market. Tony _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf