[173058] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naslund, Steve)
Tue Jul 15 11:25:15 2014
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From: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund@medline.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:18:38 +0000
In-Reply-To: <201407151509.JAA01451@mail.lariat.net>
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I can't believe that you actually believe that Brett. The reason the cost =
goes down as the number of IPs goes up is because these blocks are not mana=
ged address by address, they are managed as a single entity. ARIN has almo=
st the same amount of labor and management involved whether it is a /24 or =
a /8. That is why there is economy of scale involved. The bigger block of=
course costs more because they are trying to get people to use the smalles=
t space possible.
Steven Naslund
Chicago IL
>>Matt:
>>>Here's the thing. With physical goods, there are economies of scale in s=
hipping and delivering them in bulk. But IP addresses are simply numbers!
>>>Since there's already a base fee to cover the fixed costs, there's no re=
ason for the cost per IP to be different. And, in fact, good reason for it =
not to be. Big carriers waste a lot of IPs compared to little guys, who get=
>>>disproportionate scrutiny.
>>>--Brett Glass
