Reject the NAIPR

[Paul Ferguson]

[thinking out loud]

Well, there's not written rule or law that says that the costs have
to be *directly* passed along to the end-user (from the ISP), in the
form of prefix charges. In fact, as I mentioned in an earlier message,
if the charges were passed along to the end-user in a heavy-handed
fashion, one would think that this would inject a bit more
competitiveness in the ISP marketplace. Is this a bad thing in
itself?

- paul

At 03:48 PM 1/18/97 -0500, Scott Bradner wrote:

>Simon,
>
>>  if I as a Class C license holder am charged or if my provider is charged,
>> the charges, or some percentage thereof, will flow to me and my customers
>
>If you got your addresses from your provider then the provider is charged
>and the pass on to you (if the provider decides to do so) will be your
>part of their charge - for example if your provider has 1000 ISP customers
>then your fee would be $20K/1K or $20 per year (if a very crude division
>were done) hardly worth the heat that seems to be showing up.
>
>Scott
>