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Philip Smith wrote: >>> Encouraging investment in developing countries by large ISPs in >>> developed countries? >> :-) I understand your point, but I imagine a single /8 won't attract too >> many investors. It probably won't last for more than few months to meet >> their needs. > > Well, the investors I can think of are those who will set up business > (probably no more than a shell) in another RIR region just so they can > get IPv4 address space for their business in the region which has no > more IPv4 address space. Multinationals tend to have one RIR membership > but network needs covering multiple RIR regions. So this isn't unusual. > I see a lot of people believe this will happen, so I won't agrue against that. I would think the same risk exist for consumption based distribution though. The issue here seems to be the difference in pace of consumption among RIRs rather than method of distribution. We would need a policy to ensure the same endpoint for all RIRs if we really want to prevent RIR shopping from happening. izumi
