[17385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why does Sprint have address filters again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sat May 30 00:07:31 1998
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 21:02:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
cc: arin-council@arin.net
In-Reply-To: <19980529210833.37794@mcs.net>
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
> Now, let's look at the parallels:
>
> 1. Both are required to "do business" in a given sector (ie: announce
> routes, sell to the Erate customer base)
>
> 2. Both are simple *technical* providers (assignment of a number, with
> the important being that it is unique in both cases).
>
> 3. One is free to the ISP.
>
> 4. The other costs $500.00
5. One is financed by the government out of your taxes and is merely an
accounting formality much like a customer ID number. The other is funded
by a corporation that has no government funding and must support itself
not unlike most businesses and the number is a critical infrastructure
identifier something like an NPA-NXX.
> What is going on here? ASNs didn't used to cost money until ARIN got its
> claws into them.
ASNs have always cost money to issue. It's just that in the past it was
funded out of taxes funnelled through the NSF to a subcontractor and
hidden somewhere in NSI's budget. Those days are gone, thank God.
--
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