[16607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG 13 Logistics Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis Lee)
Thu May 7 17:16:41 1998
To: wbn@merit.edu (William B. Norton)
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 14:07:10 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: ferguson@cisco.com, wbn@merit.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980507165828.010905bc@home.merit.edu> from "William B. Norton" at "May 7, 98 04:58:29 pm"
From: Louis Lee <llee@noc.netcom.net>
Reply-To: Louis Lee <llee@noc.netcom.net>
William B. Norton wrote:
> Interstingly enough, there was a recommendation at one point to have
> DHCP address assignment free, but charge $3 for a piece of paper with
> a static IP address.
>
> Then someone else suggested a competitive market model was needed,
> with multiple static-IP-address-on-paper vendors to allow the market
> to produce the most efficient paper static address producers. A
> fraction of the $3/address would then go into an allocation fund.
> This allocation fund (until congress gets involved) would be then be
> used to lower the cost of cookies at NANOG.
>
> Bill
Great. So ARIN will eventually be getting involved with IP assignments
at NANOG too, eh? :)
Louie
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