Reject the NAIPR

[Dorian R. Kim]

On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Brett L. Hawn 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
> of business. This might cut out alot of smaller providers (the ones who
> usually provide the best service at that) which is good for the large
> companies, but face it folks.. the end user _will_ pay, one way or another.
> All ARIN does at this point is make it next to impossible for small ISPs to
> get started, and makes the existing fat cats that much fatter.

Hmm.. I'm confused as to how this will happen. In this hyper-competitive
market place, ISPs won't be able to charge more than their cost for IP
address registration and get away with it. In fact, it makes sense to just
eat the registration costs (which is at most $78 per /24 per year assuming
continuous allocation and minium /19 allocation and can be much less than $20
per /24 per year) and undercut whomever is charging lots of money for it.

-dorian