[128717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Sat Aug 14 23:30:46 2010
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:30:37 -0400
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <m2iq3dq4wh.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Randy Bush wrote:
>> >> John - you do not get it...
> >
> > vadim, i assure you curran gets it. he has been around as long as you
> > and i. the problem is that he has become a fiduciary of an organization
> > which sees its survival and growth as its principal goal, free business
> > class travel for wannabe policy wonks as secondary, and and the well-
> > being of the internet as tertiary. they're just another itu, except the
> > clothing expenses are lower and the decision making process pretends to
> > be more open, but isn't.
> >
Question: Why does it cost $11 million or more per year (going to some
$22 million per year after 2013) to run a couple of databases that are
Internet-accessible?
--Patrick
