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
> >
>
> You know Marc, your first question was very legitimate - what I don't
> understand is why you felt it necessary to include the second
> part. *sigh*
>
Sorry, Kim, nothing personal it's just that in the last year, we have
endured the State of Texas niping us for 1% of gross for the Telecommunication
Infrastructure Fund, the RBOCs trying to raise our rates to $600 per line per
year, charges for domain names that used to be free and now IP allocations.
It's enough to make a starving ISP pull his hair out!  Everyone sees ISPs
as fat cats and it just ain't true!  Look at AOL, Netcom, PSI and all the
others that are having problem just keeping solvent!  New charges are NOT
a good thing for this business.

Marc