If the commitment really was to spread IPv6 far and wide IPv6 blocks would be handed out for free, one per qualified customer (e.g., if you have an IPv4 allocation you get one IPv6 block free), or perhaps some trivial administrative fee like $10 per year. But the RIRs can't live on that. We have put them under the management of a group of five organizations which are very dependent on the income from block allocations and no doubt were hoping IPv6 allocations would be a boon since there will be very little if any income growth from future IPv4 block allocations. Worse, once acquired an IPv6 block has so many billions of addresses very few if any would ever need another allocation so it would hardly act as a loss leader. I realize many still would not deploy IPv6 for various reasons such as their equipment doesn't support it or they don't have the in-house expertise to support it, etc tho I can't think of much other etc, a few points of resistance do come up. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*