Funding - what about the second year?

[Kim Hubbard]

>
Are you suggesting that the rates never be lowered?  I would guess
that considering the ISPs will be paying an annual fee that lowering
them at any time would be welcomed.

Kim

 
> 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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