On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 17:27 -0400, Milton L Mueller wrote:
Question 2: why wouldn't LIR 1 form a new company and call it a startup to get privileged access to addresses? Or, might LIR 3, LIR 1's long standing competitor, form a new LIR to gain an advantage in the competition for resources?
Most, if not all, networks of significant size have a small chunk of spare addresses they can recycle for transition services. A new LIR OTOH has nothing and could theoretically be blocked from entering the market.
And Question 2?
That's best answered with a question. What's the point for an established LIR to go through all that trouble just to get another tiny block? A small hosting-operation might have some use for it, but it makes no sense for your example LIR (regional, national or multi-national network operator). //per