ARIN Proposal

[Kim Hubbard]

>
David,

Thanks for answering the questions below.  One correction though, ARIN
is *not* an NSI initiative but a community initiative.  NSI is merely
trying to work with the community to propose a solution to the
community's desire that domain name administration and IP number
administration be separated.

Kim


>         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
>