Oppose more ISP fees

[Rol Murrow [ IJD in CT ]]

To INTERNIC representatives:

Regarding - proposed additional fees for registration of ISP's

>From    Rol Murrow  Chairman, Air Care Alliance
                    President, EVAC
                    Northeastern Representative, AOPA

I am providing my own comments regarding proposed fees to be charged ISP's as 
suggested by NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.  

Additional fees are unnecessary and completely contrary to the interests of 
the public in expanding public access through the internet.  I am involved 
with more than thirty struggling volunteer-based public service 
organizations, most of which already find the domain name registration costs 
to be excessive.  In effect, high costs prevent them from developing public 
exposure on the internet, to the great detriment of the public in learning 
about such valuable services.

In addition, we are at a critical stage when large entities are moving to 
dominate access to the internet.  Hefty ISP fees would discourage competition 
and experimentation on the part of small independent internet service 
providers.  The costs would be passed on to their customers, and being 
divided among a smaller number of customers would result in higher 
per-customer charges - a real disincentive to experimentation and the 
encouragement of new businesses providing internet access.

Please do whatever you can to prevent any such deleterious prising schemes, 
and act to reduce the existing fee structure.  It is both in the interest of 
the public and the many small organizations providing public service.

   Rol Murrow