[30782] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Aug 30 17:29:10 2000
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:27:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: sigma@pair.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> >There is only a small number of services that currently really require
> >dedicated IPs. HTTPS and Anonymous FTP. Although, the HTTPS is a concern -
> >not that many customers actually use the Anonymous FTP service. We ended up
> >offering Anonymous FTP as a premium service (I like to think that this cuts
> >down on warez and script kiddie distribution).
>
> Aha, I was waiting for someone to say that.
>
> So it's going to be OK to use per-host IP addresses if it's sold as a
> "premium" service? So that business model is OK, but not another? What if
> we say all of our services are "premium"? What if too many of your
> customers start paying you for that "premium" service? Where's the
> threshold? Are you more justified in your IP usage because you charge your
> customers more for it?
>
> By what justification does this poorly-thought-out policy interfere with
> business models or competitive advantages between hosts?
I have never seen ARIN give one hoot about business models, especially
when it comes to using more IPs than they think is necessary.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
