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Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Mar 29 14:08:05 1997

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 97 10:58 PST
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: Matthew Pearson <mpearson@games-online.com>
Cc: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>, naipr@arin.net, nanog@merit.edu

>>   I'am I the only one that finds that the fact that the prices actually
>> *decrease* the larger the address blocks is disturbing?
> I feel that it is disturbing as well. Since IP addresses are supposed to
> come from a non-profit organization all prices should be equal.

You seem to have a model that the IP space is being sold as if it were a
commodity.  What is being charged are the services.  Please read the ARIN
proposal.

randy

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