Reject the NAIPR

[Paul Ferguson]

At 09:15 PM 1/18/97 -0500, Tim Bass wrote:

>>
>> >I beg to differ, in the end, the end-user will always lose, its a simple
>> >matter of economics. You raise my prices, I raise theirs, otherwise I
go out
>>
>> Please -- enough with the conspiracy theories.
>>

>
>I read these posts and there is no one discussing conspiracy
>theories.  The poster pointed out the simple fact of
>economics that when any goods or service cost more,
>the cost is somehow passed on to the consumer.  If you
>cannot accept this idea, I'm happy to meet you at Border's
>Book Store and point you will a freshman college text
>on Basic Economic Theory.
>

Tim,

How convenient that you left out the portion of the original
exchange to which my 'conspiracy' reply was aimed:

>Welcome to the Corporate Government you wall read about in the Cyberpunk
>novles 10 years ago.
>

Now, with regards to 'Economics 101', I'd tend to not dismiss your
argument with gleeful abandon if we were actually discussing the
possibility of IP addresses being bought & sold on the open market,
but we're not talking about that at all. We're discussing how to
fund a not-for-profit registry through billing direct customers
for registration services  & how it is actually going to work.

Certainly there are certain laws of economics at work here, but
I do not believe there are some insidious, underlying penalties
that are going to starve off all small Internet service providers.

Of course there will be cost-recovery which is passed along
to the end-user and I believe that I said as much.

- paul