Daniel,
Last-Resort local IRs have been established to serve end-users who do not have access to another local IR either because they do not connect to the Internet yet or because Internet service providers were not yet providing registry services.
Unfortunately there are still cases of ISPs not providing registry services for their customers. For example US providers selling connectivity in Europe do not provide IP addresses. As far as I know they do not want to be part of the European Regional IR.
As far as I'm concerned this should be left to market forces. Such ISPs deserve to fail, and will do so. Nigel Titley --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel Titley --- BTnet Applications Services Manager E-mail: Nigel.Titley@bt.net Tel: +44 1442 237674