[57564] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Independent space from ARIN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Mon Apr 14 15:15:14 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:09:05 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net>
> When the day arrives when people don't want new IPv4 addresses, or
> there aren't any to be had, and everybody who needs v6 addresses has
> them, how is the registry going to be paid for?
That's why RIRs lease addresses to you, not sell them -- they get to keep
collecting money forever even if they do no additional work.
S
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