What triggered ARIN ?

[Philip J. Nesser II]

Stephen Satchell supposedly said:
> 
> At 2:06 AM -0700 3/6/97, The Innkeeper wrote:
> >> 2.  Proposed location(s)
> >
> >What in the Hades does this have to do with it???
> 
> Many of the issues regarding membership meetings and cost relate to the
> cost of space.  Also, I've seen suggestions from others that ARIN would
> have to lease space at major switching points in order to provide a
> wide-enough bandwidth for IN.ARPA.
> 
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I think that any cost variations because of location are mostly lost in the
noise.  Its true that there is a large difference between space in
Manhattan vs downtown podunk, but Reston is relatively average if you put
it anywhere near a major metro area.  As for space at the exchange points,
those would be a fixed cost.  If I want to plunk a machine at MAE East it
doesn't cost me any more if my home office is in Va or Alaska.  (If I was
an ISP and routing traffic it would be a different point, but I suspect
that the servers would be housed at the exchange points negating the need
for dedicated lines to the exchange.


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--->  Phil