Hi, I am just attending a seminar in Broad band networks, and met again the claim that -"it is currently very difficult to get IP address space" and as a result of that we have to plan complex network solutions with a combination of private and public addresses. This claim is very different from the one I tend to make: "you get the addresses you need as long as you can provide documentation that you realy need them". personally I think that we have a serious PR problem here: is it so that the rules and regulations have become so strict and complicated that we, the lirs, tell our customers that this is very difficult and you should realy use private addresses, rather than explaining how the procedures and policies realy work ? Is this what we want ? -hph