ARIN Proposal

[Marc Newman]

> 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.
>
So shouldn't there be a corresponding drop in the cost of domain
registration since that function will no longer be hosted by NSI and
their costs will go down accordingly, or is this just another scam to
skim profits off ISPs?

Marc