What triggered ARIN ?

[Jim Fleming]

On Wednesday, March 05, 1997 2:10 PM, John Curran[SMTP:jcurran at bbnplanet.com] wrote:
@ At 8:56 3/5/97, Jim Fleming wrote:
@ >On Tuesday, March 04, 1997 8:51 PM, John Curran[SMTP:jcurran at BBNPLANET.COM] wrote:
@ 
@ >The suggestion has been that these regional registries
@ >take over the "management" of the allocations, not the routing.
@ >In some cases, the registry would not have any addresses
@ >to allocate because their address space is full. They would
@ >just collect lease revenues and work on reclamation.
@ >This situation would have zero impact on the routing tables.
@ 
@ Wild.   I now understand what you're proposing.
@ 
@ What possible benefit could there be to having a for-profit
@ company charging existing allocations management fees??  Doesn't
@ this create dozens of windfall situations where new registries
@ get the right to extort payments for existing allocations
@ without any limitation or competition? (or cost :-)
@ 

Now you may see why I wanted to delegate the /8 spaces
to individual States (U.S. Senators and Governors).

If those States gouge the users...what can we do...?

@ >If you feel that provider-based allocations are better
@ 
@ I don't think they're better, but we've had trouble
@ coming up with any alternatives that scale.
@ 

In my opinion, provider based allocations are the same
"windfall" situations you describe above. They are just
cloaked with services.

What stops a major provider from taking a T1 from
$3,000 per month to $4,000 per month AFTER locking
the poor ISP into an address block ? Isn't that sort
of a windfall...?

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

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