| The registries (although I shouldn't speak for all of them) would be | more than happy to allocate address space in whatever way the ISPs | agree is the "right way". The problem is, you can't agree on what's | the "right way" of doing it. It's like herding cats without the benefit of a laser pointer. | They do not want to be tied to their upstream ISP. Understandable. Hence, the people who actually develop technology to renumber ISPs and things downstream from them, whether that be with NATs (hi cisco) or things emanating out of PIER, will be heros. (Hopefully rich too). | But consider the hundreds of ISPs that don't. What's NANOG? Sigh. Sean.