[arin-discuss] IPv6 as justification for IPv4?

[Owen DeLong]

NPACs costs are relatively linear per ported number.

ARIN's costs are nowhere near linear per IP address.

There ends the ability to apply the NPAC model to ARIN and call it "fair".

Owen

On Apr 22, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Michael Tague <tague at win.net> wrote:

> Yes, NeuStar operates NPAC on a contract so that is a bit different than
> ARIN, but, on the other hand, it is a number resource like ARIN operated on
> behalf of its industry (and the public) like ARIN which needs to raise its
> operating funds from the industry it serves like ARIN.
> 
> I suspect that many of the same arguments apply to NPAC as have been
> discussed here with ARIN such as the relative costs of large versus small
> carriers.
> 
> In NPAC's case they opted for purely linear with an exemption for the small
> guys.   The telephone industry has been around a lot longer than the
> Internet so perhaps there is something to learn there.
> 
> So the question remains:  is there really any justification for charging the
> largest ISPs hundreds of times less per IP than the small and medium size
> ISPs?
> 
> Michael
> 
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> On 4/22/13 12:29 PM, Michael Tague wrote:
>> How do other organizations do it?    In the telephone world there is NPAC
>> which handles number porting.   They are an ARIN like group ...
> 
> Um. That's currently NeuStar dude. Not "ARIN like" for very large values of
> "like".
> 
> Eric
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