What triggered ARIN ?

[John Curran]

At 15:23 3/5/97, Jim Fleming wrote:

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

A non-profit registry provides IP allocations to any
and all ISPs on a cost-recovery basis.  No windfall 
there.

ISP's connect customers and need to provide IP addresses
in order to deliver the service.   Generally, this is
included in the price of service.

>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...?

I agree that there is a real potential for problems 
with the implicit 'vendor lock' due to provider-based
addressing.  The only good news that I've seen on this
front is that use of firewalls in some modes may greatly
reduce the renumbering cost and that we're actually 
beginning to see deployment of DHCP in volume.

/John