[139772] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benson Schliesser)
Tue Apr 19 16:13:42 2011
From: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
In-Reply-To: <DC315BB0-9B5A-4A4B-9435-6E9316CD58C2@virtualized.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:14:04 -0500
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>,
Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:56 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
>> Are you saying there are people who advocate creating a new ecosystem
>> of service providers for supplying several things that the RIRs
>> exclusively supply today?
>=20
> Yes.
>=20
>> Sign me up. As a vendor. I'd love to over-charge for the dead =
simple
>> task of using an API to push DNS delegation updates to the IN-ADDR
>> servers, and running a whois server.
>=20
> My guess is that lacking a monopoly, if you over-charge you won't have =
many customers.
Meanwhile, under the current system, ARIN has managed to accumulate a =
>$25M cash reserve despite an increasing budget. (see =
https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_XXVII/PDF/Wednesday=
/andersen_treasurer.pdf)
Cheers,
-Benson
