Hi, Let me toss an Idea to encourage people to return address space. *) Charge to NIC's (whole) IP Database Entry as maintenace fee. It will A) discourage people to store "not used addresses". B) Charging refresh the Database Entry, regullaly. So, addresses will not be lost. C) Cost of the database maintenace should be payed by someone. Even the address was allocated/assigned. P.S. Database Entry is not the IP address. It's a set of IP addresses, its administrative responsible is the same. Regards, Ichiro Mizukoshi e-mail(office):ichiro@TokyoNet.ad.jp Tel:+81-3-3341-6301 Fax:+81-3-3341-6305 From: "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net> Subject: Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:52:29 +0900

2) what incentive do you propose to give to encourage people to return address space to the pool of "usable" addresses? Given that they have not done so already, it is safe to assume "for the good of the Internet" is not sufficient.