ARIN Proposal

[David Schwartz]

        Here's a brief summary answer to your questions, each of which
has been asked and answered on this forum numerous times.

On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, David A. Dobbs wrote:

> 1)      Why are the fees needed?  What has changed or is about to change that
> the formation of a new organization is needed?

        It costs money to run a registry. What has changed is that NSI
has decided that the conflation of domain registry and IP address
registry is a bad thing.

> 2)      Under what authority does Network Solution, Inc. have to create a new
> organization that would impose these fees?  Under what authority would this
> organization enforce or control allocation and issuance of IP addresses?

        The answer to your first question is that such authority comes
from IANA whose authority comes from the Department of Defense. The
answer to your second question is that ARIN does not have that control,
IANA does.

> 3)      What was the criterion used to decide how much the fees should be and
> who should pay these fees?  Is this a plan to weed out numerous small ISPs
> and to discourage new startup ISPs?

        The fees were selected to be an approximation of what it would
cost to run such a registry. This plan will not weed out small ISPs
because small ISPs do not get their allocations from Internic now and
wouldn't get them from ARIN in the future.

> 4)      How will the money be spent?  This organization would be collecting many
> millions of dollars.  What would the ISP get in return?  What is the
> benefit?

        The ISP would get in return IP registration services, or do you
not think those are necessary? The money would be spent on the operation
of the registry.

> 5)      Who will be the people what will make up this organization?  How will
> the "select" few be chosen?  Persons that "understand" the issues as the
> issues are defined by Network Solutions, Inc. or if by representative
> people from the Internet community (ISP's, vendors, government, educators,
> corporate users, back bone providers), will they like minded with interest
> similar to big business?  Who will oversee this group of people (i.e., the
> registry)?

        For those questions, I defer to the coming details of the
implementation. The answer to your last question is, you guessed it, IANA.

> I ask that this plan NOT be implemented until they can make reasonable
> answers and assurances.

        That was and still is the plan. That's what this list is for.

        David Schwartz
        WIZnet/WIZLink