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Yeah, I thought that information sounded a bit overboard. Thanks to everyone who cleared that up. Joe Shaw - [email protected] NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services "Learn more, and you will never starve." - Paraphrase of Lee On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Paul E. Erkkila wrote: > There was a discussion of ARIN at ISPCON where Kim H. explained the > funding policy in great detail to the people present. In this case > the > $2500/yr is not for each /24 registered but an annual fee paid by the > ISP to buy service from ARIN (for one year) for their overall address > allocation. If your total allocation is > /24 and < /19 then you only > pay > $2500 for that year. If it it over that then you pay for whichever > tier you > fall into. > > At first glance I thought the policy was somewhat lopsided against an > an ISP who is at the low end's of each tier. (n^2 per address bit and > all), > but the proposal clearly states that this is just their initial > guidelines > and once ARIN is formed it will be the responsibility of the ISP's > who > make the effort to join ARIN to set policy, including fees, tiers and > renewal rates. > > Paul Erkkila > Frontier IOAC > > > > J.D. Falk wrote: > > > > On Aug 26, Joe Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I've also heard that. Another rumor is that Domain Name Registration is > > > going to now cost $250/year, instead of $50/year. > > > > Haven't heard that one, but I doubt they'd be that stupid. > > > > > Class C address space > > > is going to cost you $2500/year. The $9.95/month ISPs are out of > > > business. What's this going to do to the small and struggling businesses > > > out there? Class B networks are now going to cost $637500 at that price. > > > So, look for prices on everything to start going up to cover the costs for > > > your upstream providers. > > > > That one I have heard. The actual pricing structure in the > > early ARIN proposals (http://www.arin.net/) was scalable; > > it was never $2500 per class C unless you're getting them > > one at a time, in non-contiguous blocks. > > > > These kinds of conspiracy theories are on literally dozens > > of other mailing lists, including NAIPR and PAGAN. > > > > Please note the reply-to. > > > > ********************************************************* > > J.D. Falk voice: +1-415-482-2840 > > Supervisor, Network Operations fax: +1-415-482-2844 > > PRIORI NETWORKS, INC. http://www.priori.net > > > > "The People You Know. The People You Trust." > > ********************************************************* >
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