On Monday, March 10, 1997 8:34 AM, Alex P. Rudnev[SMTP:alex@Relcom.EU.net] wrote: @ Hi. It's not good idea to discusse _can we /NIC/ allow or can we @ disallow_. @ More interesting is _how to prevent address space wasting_ and _how to @ prevent extra payements..._. @ @ If you'll disallow class B selling, Internet would lost 256*256 @ addresses, because this class B network would be unused (and somebody @ would use class C networks instead_. It's bad thing, isn't it? @ @ On the other hand, if you'll allow free saling of the address space, @ internet would be the homeplace of the big nabobs who can bye total @ address space and break down small competitors (and even small @ countries); it'll mean the deaths of the Internet, isn't it? @ This is the case now...upstream providers are the "big nabobs"... they do not incur the costs of renumbering, they do not get concerned when they make a bid to a customer, they have the resources to deliver. They may not have paid for these resources but they have them...just check the records... @ I do not know how would NOC go between this _scilla_ and _charibda_, but @ it's one of this important questions the internet's future depends of. @ @ Yes...some people feel this is a very important area.... unfortunately, the solutions being proposed favor the "big nabobs"... -- Jim Fleming Unir Corporation e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net JimFleming@unety.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8)