Karin,

Opinions regarding leasing vary throughout the industry. In my opinion, since the shift to provider assigned addresses during the CIDR efforts in the mid 1990s, the majority of addresses have been leased in one form or another. 

The only thing novel here is the leasing of addresses independent of connectivity services. However, once the RIRs and their communities normalized the sale of addresses through directed transfer policies, I think this was an inevitable next step in the devolution of IPv4 into a monetized asset. 

It doesn’t help that the earliest and most prolific adopters of this form of leasing have been snowshoe spammers. 

However, there are leasing agencies that insist on getting proper justification from their customers and have strong anti-abuse policies. I would strongly encourage you to seek out such an organization to partner with if you choose to lease your addresses as there are a number of pitfalls you can encounter otherwise. 

Owen


On Jul 3, 2023, at 08:25, Noah <noah@neo.co.tz> wrote:


Hi KARIM,

Considering the fact that IPs are requested on need-basis by resource holders to number your own networks/systems and that of your clients?

Any reason why MEKTEL would want to offer IPs for lease?

Cheers,
./noah



On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 6:16 PM KARIM MEKKAOUI <amekkaoui@mektel.ca> wrote:

Dear NANOG Community,

 

MEKTEL has a block of IPs that would like to offer in parts or in total for lease and would like to know from your experience your comments on the following:

  1. The right price
  2. The challenges you faced
  3. Was it easy to get back your IPs
  4. Was your IPs black listed because of the inappropriate use
  5. Any other issue we need to care about
  6. Etc., etc.

 

Thank you in advance

 

KARIM

MEKTEL INC.