On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Gert Doering wrote:
Actually we decided on one of the last RIPE meetings to obsolete the "charging by local IRs" document, because the majority seemed to believe that "the market will rule this" - if one ISP charges too much, people will go and find an alternative.
Sigh. And I thought IP addresses were a global resource, with a bit nobler motivations and goals to recommend or mandate that the ISPs don't screw their customers on something they get for free. Live and learn.. It seems this matter needs to be taken up in the local telecom legislation.. If the end users had realistic possibilities to obtain routable PI, there would not be such a concern, because the ISPs could not create a lock-in situation (or force to renumber or use NAT).. But now this seems like a problem. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings