<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> As we all know, there are lot of big LIRs with plenty of unused (or wasted) space, and now they are making serious business selling their classes. With a current price of about 10€/IP, it's easy to understand how big are interests behind this: some LIRs could make M€ just by selling something they obtained for free some years ago. It's clear that we can't "generate" more IPv4, but IMHO this is totally against a fair market. A new LIR with just a /22 shouldn't be charged like one with tons of /12: if having lot of IPv4 would be anti-economical for big LIRs, this would be a real incentivation for IPv6 deployment and return of IPv4. I'm not a lawyer, but probabily this problem should be reviewd by European Commission for Competition. Br <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Saverio Giuntini Servereasy di Giuntini Saverio Amministrazione e system manager</pre> </body> </html>