Awkward to say... These companies (at least RIPE) are non profit making - you join for a fixed fee and then you get as many IPs as you need. It would be a good

Awkward to say... These companies (at least RIPE) are non profit making - you join for a fixed fee and then you get as many IPs as you need. It would be a good idea on one hand and a pain on the other... I am trying to think of a counter to it in my head, but, I can't really... a small fee is easily absorbed in per user costs and so many companies use public ips for internal routing when a private ip would do a good job... Then again, you could get big companies asking to rent out more than they need and refusing to hand back... Even if there was fool proof way of provisioning and managing, I personally think it is far too late to do it :(