Idea

$.02 - 
If there were a shortage of rice in China, I'm not sure
that charging more for it would solve the fact that there
isn't enough, regardless of what the RFC for rice is.

-Matt 

Matthew G. Harrigan
Vice President, Internet Services
WinFirst
303-407-1661  
www.winfirst.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Elliott [mailto:stephen at hnt.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 7:00 AM
To: Virtual IP List
Subject: Idea


	Everyone knows that there is an IP shortage under IPv4.  I was not
involved with previous discussions, I have however been running websites
for years and thought I would pitch out an idea for everyone to
discuss.  Under RFC 2050, which is the holy grail for ARIN, 25% of IP's
must be justified at the time of request with documented plans for 50%
utilization within 12 months.  IP based virtual hosting is used for many
reasons, and I do not believe that there is any good way to write a all
inclusive list of reasons that are good enough to overcome the 1 IP per
machine rule.  The best way that I see for fairly allowing people an
companies to get the addresses that they need is to charge for anything
above and beyond that.  I would throw out a number of $10-$15US per year
for small blocks.  This should be charged by ARIN through the
organization that is responsible for each net block.  One modification
of this could be a reverse scale upon which to charge, so that the more
an organization used IP based virtual hosting, the more they had to pay
per IP.
	I realize that there is going to be no easy solution to this, but a
fair and equitable way to distribute IP's to individuals and companies
that need them is imperitive to the stability of the Internet and it's
continued growth.
-Stephen

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Stephen Elliott                 Harrison & Troxell
Systems & Networking Manager    2 Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Systems & Networking Group      Boston, Ma 02109
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