Getting a "portable" /19 or /20

Mon Apr 9 22:07:30 UTC 2001

John said:
> Well, you could acquire a company that already has one. :)

That has been the suggestion from several people. 
I've even considered it, especially when one of my local
competitors has a /18, and they are much smaller than we are.
We 'NAT' an incredible amount of dial-up and commercial customers
to reduce our need for public IP's, and trends thankfully went to
customers WANTING to be NAT'd and Proxied for 'firewall' reasons, 
with only a few public IP's. 

It seems a poor reasons for acquiring a company, as they
really do not "own" the address space. --Mike--