Funding - what about the second year?

[Jon Lewis]

On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Justin W. Newton wrote:

> At 05:27 PM 2/17/97 -0600, Tim Russell wrote:
> >    Now, notwithstanding the fact that I'd /love/ to start a business that
> >is guaranteed to break even the first year :-), the question that's been
> >on my mind is this: what about the second year?
> 
> The BoT will lower the rates?  RIPE has already done this, and I would
> suspect that ARIN would follow their example.  What gain would they have in
> not doing so?

That would mean organizations that get address space in the first year of
ARIN get the shaft, and those that grow to that size later pay less for
it.  Is it really reasonable to expect those that are allotted space in the
first year to subsidize the creation of ARIN? 

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