Billions?

[Larry Honig]

>The main point of the allocation is to spread the
>economic benefits of registry operations around.
>If the IPv4 IP address leasing market is allowed to
>develop and rates are deregulated, then a multi-billion
>dollar per year leasing industry can blossom.

Hmmm. There are about 4 billion unique addresses in IPv4 Space. Are you
suggesting that the end user of each address be forced to fork over a
buck a year? This seems like a worse deal than we've got right now.