[6692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Non-profit IP Registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex.Bligh)
Fri Jan 3 10:22:19 1997
To: fehnb@jerseycape.net (Robert J. Fehn Sr.)
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jan 1997 09:41:44 EST."
<199701031441.JAA24188@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 15:20:40 +0000
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
> > How will portable/non-portable address space be effected. Does the=
mean
> >that if I have non-portable address space, I can charge customers for
> >address space, and if it is portable, they have to pay $2500 per /24 t=
o
> >have it registered to them?
> =
> That would not go over well. <G>
<Warning: the following is not entirely serious>
Oh I don't know, a $122m grant for some competition perhaps? Internic cur=
rently
assigns (effectively) out of a /8. There are several other /8s around tha=
t
are underutilised. Let's say you run one of these and your network could
actually fit in a /10. You renumber (ouch, expensive), then assign the re=
st
of your /8 (49152 class Cs) in a manner similar to Internic, doing your b=
est
to assign CIDR friendly blocks etc. etc. to applicants. If you sold them
all at $2500 per class C, you'd pocket $122m (enough to pay for any renum=
bering
and the admin of the exercise). Would they get routed? Well you would be
assigning blocks of all sizes and if your assignment policy was as good a=
s
or better than Internic, why would people want to filter? In fact, if you=
undercut Internic, you could perhaps even sell class Bs etc. to tier-1s
who'd have no reason not to use them. If not, the change from $122m can
pay for a pretty decent amount of transit for some proxy aggregation (i.e=
=2E
you continue to announce the /8 for a while).
Perhaps better still, pervert the RIPE model. Sell class /16s out of your=
/8
to competing subregistries, who can then onsell space at a profit (as sma=
ller
bits are more expensive). May be even reinvent pyramid selling: "Look, yo=
u
have this /n currently, all you have to do is renumber with our $5000
autorenumbering software into our /n-2 and sell the plan and the other /n=
-2 to
3 organizations for $5000, and you'll have instantly made $10,000! Then
sell your old /n using this scheme as well to someone with a /n+2 and mak=
e
another $5000". Or something.
Why do I feel there is a flaw somewhere....
Alex Bligh
Xara Networks
