[arin-ppml] Continuation: Policy Change Request: IP Address Assignment to Educational and Non-Commercial Organizations

[Christopher Mettin]

We just need maybe 2 or 3 blocks containing up to 255 hosts (of IP v4
addresses).

We have partner schools in several US states. We plan to create a program
allowing us to share classroom resources and to communicate directly.
Unfortunately, our ISPs assign us dynamic IP addresses only and thus they
change every 24 hours. Static IP addresses allow us to allow a connection
establishment without allowing people other than our students to join. But
having dynamic IP addresses only, we are forced to allow access by the
entire ISP subnet which could mean a potential harm to our network.

Can anyone provide us with a bunch of addresses?
We would be very grateful. But such a chance should available to anyone else
of the named parties as well.

Thank you.

Sincerely yours,
Christopher Mettin
Gymnasium Querfurt High School

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Mettin [mailto:cmettin at gqbc-online.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 2:27 PM
To: arin-ppml at arin.net
Subject: [arin-ppml] Policy Change Request: IP Address Assignment to
Educational and Non-Commercial Organizations

To the American Regional IP Network Community,

Don't you think that current ARIN fees exceeds the true value of IP
addresses? Actually, they are just numbers, and ARIN is in charge by IANA to
assign these IP's to people in all North America. For commercial companies
with revenues of several Million Dollars a year these IP address blocks ARIN
assigns are affordable. But smaller non-commercial organizations and even
schools cannot pay for them.

Especially for high schools, colleges, and smaller universities such prices
can mean a harm to their classroom project, thus they mean a harm to
education.

ARIN should change their policies to waive the fees for educational
institutions and non-commercial organizations.

Thank you.

Sincerely yours,
Christopher Mettin
Gymnasium Querfurt High School