Re: ARIN is *NOT* A Good Thing

["NetSurfer" <netsurf () pixi com>]

Proposed charging up to $20,000 for IP addresses - more unsubstantiated
rumor?

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From: David Stoddard <dgs () us net>
To: nanog () merit edu
Cc: jfbb () atmnet net
Subject: Re: ARIN is *NOT* A Good Thing
Date: Friday, March 28, 1997 8:29 PM

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        For the sake of discussion, this is the following fee structure
        that has been proposed by ARIN (see the ARIN proposal page at
        http://www.arin.net/arin_proposal.html):

        Small   $2500/year      /24 - /19 
        Medium  $5000/year      >/19 - /16 
        Large   $10K/year       >/16 - /14
        X-Large $20K/year       >/14

        Fees are based on your total allocation for the previous year,
        plus another $1,000 per year to maintain membership in ARIN.
        It is safe to say that any ISP able to receive address blocks
        falls somewhere between Medium and X-Large on this chart.

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As for an IANA Statement on the subject:

http://www.arin.net/iana.html

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IANA Statement on ARIN (1/14/97)


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The Internet Assigned Nunbers Authority (IANA) views the move by Network
Solutions to promote the creation of the American Registry for Internet
Numbers (ARIN) as a non-profit, self-supporting, independent operation as a
very positive step and fully supports the general concept. 

--jon. 

Jon Postel
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

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