I seriously doubt that the Internic has such plans. Although its contract may be extended for a period of time, current plans have the award terminate in 2nd quarter 1998. Charging for address space is tantamount to selling integers. There is a fairly large body of discussion on this topic at piara@apnic.net In the near term, I expect ARIN to have a greater role with the North American ISP use of IP space. You should check out their web site for more details. (This is one reason I -HATE- the web!)
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