Re: Routing wars pending?

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov () cisco com>]

Zachary,

> Well, but was the changing of money for a *purchase* or a *lease* ?  The comi
ng
> CIDRization seems to lend itself more toward leasing your IPs from your provi
der
> than purchasing them... much like small companies rarely buy a suite in a lar
ger
> building, instead they lease... with IPs though, the length of term of the le
ase
> would be something to the effect of 'while getting service from the same prov
ider'.

The issue of leasing vs owning addresses is discussed
in draft-ietf-cidrd-addr-ownership-04.txt Internet Draft.

Yakov.