[57611] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Independent space from ARIN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Apr 14 21:36:42 2003
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:35:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <017001c302ba$16a52480$93b58742@ssprunk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> 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.
RIRs _allocate_ addresses, meaning that they provide the _service_ of
_registering uniqueness_. You pay a _membership fee_ to support the
ongoing operation of the registry, and allow it to continue providing you
with the _service of uniqueness_ for your addresses.
You don't buy them, you don't lease them. You buy the service of the
RIR's maintenance of a database which ensures unique allocations.
-Bill
