WIBNI everyone who announced subnets of an allocated-in-pre-CIDR-times prefix would have to justify, under the usual slow-start rules, the use of any and all of those chunks that exceed a typical initial allocation from a favourite registry (APNIC, ARIN, RIPE)? WIBNI these member-funded registries were instructed by their members that, in order to postpone the day when the vast majority of paying members have to upgrade their routers because of an increase in the number of globally-heard prefixes and/or change swathes of the parts of the Internet they offer service to from classical IPv4 because of address consumption, the registries should monitor the address utilization of pre-CIDR allocations AS IF THEY HAD BEEN ALLOCATED UNDER TODAY'S RULES, and notify the entire membership when pre-CIDR allocations are clearly non-conforming in a way that inflates (even just a little) the size of the global routing tables or the overall visible address consumption. Sean. "Hot Babes Want You to Pay Your Registry to Police the Pre-CIDR Allocations Too!" -- whimsical spam to all real-world routing folks.