Of course, this is only possible with NAT at the customer edge. Otherwise, it expands the size of the global routing system exponentially. - ferg -- Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net> wrote: As you can see, this TRO has widespread effects, and is something that everyone in the industry could be affected by. If this precedent is set, you will soon have everyone acting as if IP's are property, and something that they are entitled to. I ask for input from everyone in the community on this. We don't think we're crazy, but want to make sure. -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net