Reject the NAIPR

[Alan Barrett]

Mark Richmond <markr at lightspeed.net> said:
> An example:
> Crudnuts Industries has the class 'C' block of 198.xxx.yyy.
> As a class 'C' address holder, what will be their obligations to ARIN in
> year one?  In years 3 through X?

They will not have to pay a cent to ARIN.  Please read the proposal.

> As it is, the ARIN proposal sets the price of a Class C allocation at
> $2500.  All price offering will start from there, not from the $20 you
> suggest.

You appear to have misunderstood the ARIN proposal and/or the way IP
address allocation works in the Internet.  Please go back and read the
message from Kim in which she explained that there are approximately 300
ISPs that get address space directly from the InterNIC.

The usual case will be that a large ISP gets a large block from ARIN (say
a /16, costing $20000).  The usual case will *not* be that a small ISP
gets a small block from ARIN (say a /24 costing $2500).  The usual case
will be that a small ISP gets a small block from its upstream provider,
which should be able to afford to charge $100 or so for a /24 (since
$20000/256 = $78.125).

> For a precedent, look at "port costs" and see how they haven't
> changed much even with the drop in the cost of telecomm charges and
> upstream port costs.

Sorry, I fail to see the relationship between port costs and address
assignment.

> Stephen Satchell, Satchell Evaluations
> <http://www.accutek.com/~satchell> for contact and other info

Now I'm confused.  Why does it say Stephen Satchell at the end of
a message from Mark Richmond?

--apb (Alan Barrett)