Kent,

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How about a policy which says that if you fail to pay an annual amount by a due date then a process is commenced with an outcome such that your registration details expire and the associated number space is no longer registered to you.

Geoff

I have a concern about tying any kind of fee to address allocations. If we do that, we are essentially leasing addresses and we have no way to deal with address speculation. There is no way we could prevent arbitrage, scalping, speculation and hoarding, no matter how high the fees are set.

And these things don't happen now? :-) Seriously, however... I covered much of this area in 1744, and the brief summary is that _combined with other administrative policies_ periodic charges for the registration of address space is a sensible administrative measure which will increase the value and usefulness of the IP V4 address space and increase the useful timespan of cost effective operation of the IPV4 Internet network and that you can bound the level of scalping and speculation based on the registeries presence in the trading market as a price point determinator. I also tried to point out in 1744 the likely scenario if addresses continue to be allocated without charge, and, oddly enough, the most likely result is "arbitrage, scalping, speculation and hoarding" WITHOUT any price point determinator, which leads inevitably to UNBOUNDED arbitrage, scalping, etc! Geoff