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Of course, today is the first time I heard about it as well. They `could' have sent mail to the maintainer records at the least. ted Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:47:21 -0700 (PDT) > > From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <[email protected]> > > > > > > Hello Kevin, > > > > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > From: Majdi Abbas <[email protected]> > > > > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:20:55 -0400 (EDT) > > > > Sender: [email protected] > > > > Heads up: > > > > https://www.merit.edu/radb/fee.html > > > > > Yes, but before getting excited, please read the full text including > > > the part about participants at the MAEs, PAIX, AADS, and PacBell being > > > exempt. > > Is this supposed to make me feel better ? Hmmm, I don't have any > > relationships there & I'll bet so DON'T alot of others . These > > continual .05 & .10 antics of every frigging organisation that > > has anything todo with the internet today is getting -WAY- out > > line (not the prices I saw there) . Next some idiot is going > > to say Because I provide toilet paper to Cisco/Bay-Networks/... > > I'm going to bill all of you with a wipe your backend surcharge. > > Signed Prodtor&Grumble or somesuch . Gawd where does this end . > > Actually, it's a win for us as we have been one of the ISPs who have > been contributing (to the tune of 5 figures) to keep the RADB alive > for the past couple of years since the NSF quit funding it. Most of > the world has been getting by for free, but we felt the RADB was > essential to a well run Internet and were willing to pay (along with > Verio, ANS, and some others) to keep it in place. > > There are a great many parts of the Internet that were funded by the > government. The government has no real business running the Internet, > so I am just as happy to see the finding become privatized. > > (Yes, ESnet is U.S. Government funded.) > > Most larger ISPs are at one of the places where the route servers are > located and most local ISPs have their registrations handled by their > up-streams who are at the route servers. For those who do their own, > it will be another .05 & .10 charge, I'm afraid. But, until all > functions that make the Internet run are funded by those who use the > Internet, there will undoubtedly be more of them. > > Now that I've said that, I do think that Merit should be doing a MUCH > better job of letting people know about this. I heard about it a > couple of weeks ago on the RADB mailing list, but until today, nothing > on NANOG, an obvious place for it and one managed by Merit. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 -- Ted Frohling (TF30-ARIN) The University of Arizona 520.621.4834 CCIT Room 307 [email protected] PO Box 210073 www.Telcom.Arizona.EDU/tsf Tucson, AZ 85721-0073
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