"ARIN may change this in the future"

On Sunday, June 29, 1997 6:25 AM, Richard J. Sexton[SMTP:richard at vrx.net] wrote:
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@ >> Uh huh. Color me skeptical. 
@ >> 
@ >> "This income tax of 1913 is just for a few years"
@ >
@ >Re-read the ARIN proposal.  You only pay (up front?) for your first
@ >allocation, or at the end of each year in which you receive allocations.
@ >There's nothing in there about charging (rent?) for allocations previously
@ >made.
@ >
@ >http://www.arin.net/arin_proposal.html
@ 
@ And that'll never change ?
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According to Kim Hubbard at the recent NANOG meeting...

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"What is grandfathered? Everything is grandfathered that was
previously allocated. ARIN may change this in the future. The
maintenance fees apply to the number of blocks."

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By the way, if you read some of the responses from Network
Solutions, Inc. at the time that domain name charging started
people actually claimed that the charges would only be required
as long as they were needed. The $50 was arbitrary. It has not
changed. The expenditures have evidently expanded to cover
all available income.

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation