ARIN Capitalization

[Jim Fleming]

On Thursday, March 06, 1997 6:33 AM, Scott Bradner[SMTP:sob at newdev.harvard.edu] wrote:
@ --
@ ne of the ways for ARIN to be capitalized would
@ be for the "members" to bring their IP address blocks
@ to ARIN for "safe keeping".
@ --
@ 
@ like bringing all your food to a food coop when you join?
@ 

Yes...or like people who have properties with borders
in common and who decide to create a public park...
they pull back their property lines, deed over the property
to trustees and then they have to live with a public park
or forest behind them, but that may be better than a
toxic waste dump...

In the case of parks, people trade-off long-term control
for long-term stability. In some cases, it might increase
their property value because a buyer of the private
property might appreciate the fact that the park will always
be the park...unless of course there is a war or change
in government policy...

For people with 50,331,648 acres, they may be willing
to donate 16,777,216 of those acres to make sure they
get to keep the other part. Also, the taxes on the entire
property might get to be too much. When the land is
given away, the tax liabilities go with it.

If you like you can study this type of transition all along
the Hudson River in New York. People in mansions turn
the surrounding property over to the "public" and they
can continue to enjoy the view that does not change
because the rules are written so that the public can
not use the property.

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

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