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Re: Routing wars pending?

  • From: Yakov Rekhter
  • Date: Wed Nov 15 15:57:14 1995 
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.