David Conrad wrote:
c) say to the customer "Here is one (1) IPv4 address. Go NAT your enterprise"d) say to the customer "Here is a /48 for IPv6. Go NAT your enterprise"
There are enough NAT unfriendly protocols for this to be really unattractive to some clients once they find out the limitations. Anyway a small part of the problem has been that one (1) address is seldom enough; a /29 or /30 is generally the minimum usage.
e) wave money around and say to the black market "name your price!"
I wonder on thinking about this how practical a black (or white) market would be given the minimum size of a routable block. I guess it really only applies to the historical allocations.
I think you might have missed one: f) Brief their lawyers to go after the RIR's and access the 'reserve'. Now here's a plan that should work for a customer or even an ISP.