ARIN Comments

[John Curran]

At 19:32 3/1/97, Jim Fleming wrote:

>The main point of the allocation is to spread the
>economic benefits of registry operations around.
>If the IPv4 IP address leasing market is allowed to
>develop and rates are deregulated, then a multi-billion
>dollar per year leasing industry can blossom.

Now this makes sense...   your goal is to create a 
multi-billion dollar registry industry, and mine is
to ensure operational stability and transition of a 
key function from a for-profit to an industry-led
non-profit association that recognizes stewardship
responsibilities for address space and consequential
routing resources.

Are you certain that there is not a sufficiently large
marketplace being formed for DNS registries already such 
that your goal can be attained without also restructuring
for multiple commercial IP registries for the americas?

/John