[6687] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Non-profit IP Registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David R. Conrad)
Fri Jan 3 01:18:02 1997
To: David Stoddard <dgs@us.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, davidc@apnic.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jan 1997 00:09:30 EST."
<199701030509.AAA18840@us.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 15:09:15 +0900
From: "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>
David,
ISPs in Asia, the Pacific Rim, Europe, the Middle East, and Northern
Africa pay similar fees for allocation services from APNIC or RIPE-NCC
and most of these regions are growing faster than the US. Further,
small businesses should *NOT* be obtaining addresses from a regional
registry directly -- they should be obtaining them from their provider.
Regards,
-drc
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>
> While I admit it is not completely clear reading the proposal
> outlined on the web page at http://rs.internic.net/arin, charging
> $2,500 for a /24 will *kill* the small business market, and the
> ISPs that exist to service that market. Most of the associations
> and small businesses we deal with choke when thay have to pay $750
> for a router to handle their dedicated Internet connection. Added
> to the fact that the LECs want to charge per minute charges for
> POTS lines used for dedicated dial-up, a $2,500 IP address charge
> will guarantee that the small business portion of the market will
> disappear. We all depend on the net for a living folks -- I don't
> think we should consider any proposal that would have a negative
> effect on our own industry.
>
> Dave Stoddard
> US Net Incorporated
> 301-572-5926
> dgs@us.net
>
>
