[ppml] getting converts to V6

[David Conrad]

Lee,

On May 20, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Lee Dilkie wrote:
>>> No offense. But the cost of assigning me a drivers license,  
>>> including
>>> all the testing and whatnot, is *far* less than ARIN's fees.
>> There may be a few more people obtaining drivers licenses than there
>> are requesting blocks of addresses.
> And that makes it inefficient? Now that's a pretty interesting  
> argument.

It isn't about efficiency or lack thereof.  Obviously, the fees you  
pay for a driver's license is significantly smaller than the fees you  
would pay for an address allocation.  Part of the reason for this is  
that since ARIN (like the other RIRs) works on a cost recovery basis,  
the fewer number of fee payers, the larger the fee per payer.  While  
DMVs operate on a different model, the use fees associated with  
driver licenses reflect a much, much larger payer base and hence are  
much smaller than the fees folks would pay if the total payer base  
was on the order of 1000.

> You don't have permission to access /about_us/corp_docs/ on this  
> server.

Apologies.  As others have pointed out, the URL wrapped.  The correct  
URL is:

<http://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs/budget.html>

>> Your original statement remains a demonstration of ignorance.
> Thanks for pointing that out, David. I feel so very welcome when I  
> post
> to this list and folks like you are so polite with my mistakes.

"Ig-no-rance: noun, lack of knowledge or information."
      -- Oxford American Dictionary

My comment wasn't intended as an insult.  Honestly.  I personally  
freely admit I am ignorant about most things.  Ignorance only becomes  
a problem when people don't try to remedy it during discussions.

Rgds,
-drc