Det som forbauser meg litt, er at ingen har grepet fatt i det faktum at leverandører som NGT tar betalt for IP-adresser. Det er direkte i strid med reglene fra RIPE; der står det helt tydelig at man kan ta et administrativt engangsgebyr for å tildele adressene, men ikke en fast leie. Prisen kan heller ikke variere med antallet adresser. RIPE sine retningslinjer er ikke så klare som du gir uttrykk for. Det aktuelle dokumentet (RIPE-152) sier: Two of the above services involve the assignment of finite resources to customers: these are domain name space and IPv4 address space. They are managed and assigned by registration agencies, respectively domain name registries and IP registries. By themselves, these resources have no intrinsic value; their worth is only realised in conjunction with the provision of Internet access. Thus, while registries may charge for their administrative and technical services, they may not charge for name space or address space as such; no unit cost or price tag can be attached to a domain name or to an IP address, public or private. Dette bør nok tolkes dithen at man ikke kan selge IP-adresser, men at man fritt kan ta seg betalt for administrasjon av dem, ruting av dem osv. At NextGenTel har valgt å legge en større del av kostnadene ved fast-IP-løsningen sin på de som trenger flere adresser bør ihvertfall være greit. Og et utklipp fra deres "ISP customer FAQ" som linker til RIPE-152 http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/faq/isp-customers.html#14 How much should an LIR be charging for requesting IP space on my behalf? IP addresses are a public resource and should not be bought or sold. It is reasonable, however, for an LIR to charge a fee for administering the address space that they assign to you. The RIPE NCC has not stipulated a charging schedule. This is left to the discretion of the membership. Further information on the RIPE community's policy on charging by LIRs can be found in the RIPE document "Charging by Local Internet Registries" found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/chargingbylirs.html Men det jeg finne prinsipielt feil er at ISP'n leverer en RFC-1918 adr. på sin terminerings punkt til kunden. Les denne tråden: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=no&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=EK9f9.3533%24TK2.344234%40juliett.dax.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dsamuel%2Bgunnestad%2Bngt%26hl%3Dno%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3DEK9f9.3533%2524TK2.344234%2540juliett.dax.net%26rnum%3D1