Niels Bakker wrote:
d) is basically having the Internet community pay - both in real money for staffing at RIRs and in scarce IP address space - for no benefit in return at all for a function that those N companies should have an institution perform for them via c).
Actually, the company pays just the same as everyone else concerning staffing at RIRs. As for scarce IP address space, the last report I heard was that surge slowed down in time to keep it from being a serious problem at this time. If a company has a habit of making interconnections with other companies and said company has several /16's worth of network, I can understand their desire not to use 10/8, as a conflict on a new interconnect could require massive renumbering. However, I do think there should be methods in place to recognize that those routes should not be routed by others. For example, 9/8 shouldn't ever be routed by anyone unless IBM changes their mind and decides to route it. -Jack