Daniel, I like what you have done with this document. I believe what we need to get the market drive to force behavior we want (global routability) our backbone service providers should charge us for routing an individual net number. An individual net number is a classful net number or a CIDR block. This should be a yearly charge. The regional service providers would then pass this cost on to their customers. In the case of CIDR blocks the charge would be proportionally smaller. The regionals shouldn't be the driving force for this charging because the problem associated with PI routes doesn't affect all of the regionals the same way. There are regionals which still use default routing toward the backbone and do not carry full routing tables. I can't decide if we want class B's to be charged more than class C's. Us old timers with lots of class B's wouldn't like that. It would however encourage folks with class A's and B's that are inefficiently assigning address space to turn back expensive to keep network numbers. While I think that our backbone providers should charge us for individual routes, I do not want them to use this as a form of revenue enhancement but instead as a form of social reengineering encouraging good behavior. So the charge should be offset with a decrease in the basic charge rate. There is one problem with this scheme. In order to charge enough to cause behavior changes the backbones would have to charge a lot for individual routes. The cost for internet access is quite high right now so a charge of say $100/year would be a drop in the bucket compared to the other costs. So the market drive to use PA address space would be small. It would however have a effect on the dial-in customers who are connecting the cheapest way possible. Just my $.02 worth. Walt