As a customer I have no problem paying for /16s so long as you'll give me as many as I wish to buy. -- Eliot Lear [lear@sgi.com]
As a customer I feel the same.
But this is precisely why addresses should never be sold. How do you expect some mom & pop business or individual to compete with billion dollar companies that don't blink at a $50K service charge.
Joe Pace pace@honda.com
May I please point out that this discussion has not mentioned the wide scale implementation of IPv6 or some derrivative thereof. The greatly increased quantity of addresses should have some impact on this. Granted, for the sake of routing tables, some organization needs to manage the allocation so we don't end up with piecemeal routing but the restrictions on how many addresses folks can have should be lessened in such a circumstance.