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Oh come on. AV8 is pretty small, and I'll pay the fee. Though, I think $200 is pretty high for what is provided. I mean, its just a database entry after all. Right? Server operation at exchanges is paid for by server users at the exchanges. Right? So we pay Internic the outrageously high fee of $35 per year for domain registration... Doesn't seem that much different... --Dean Around 09:49 PM 10/25/1999 -0400, rumor has it that Majdi Abbas said: > >Owen wrote: >> While I agree with you in principal, the reality is that we live >> in a capitalist society, and governments are eliminating the socialist >> funding of these mechanisms which has allowed them to exist to date. >> If they are to continue to exist, they will require a source of >> funding. If you have an alternative that is better than user fees, >> please propose it. Otherwise, please recognize that this isn't >> an effort to nickle and dime so much as the result of multiple >> independent agencies being forced to self-fund their pieces of >> internet infrastructure as they lose their government funding. > > I don't see it as being cost recovery (although it is >certainly intended as such)...more as cost shifting. Here's >how it'll work: > > The people who will be affected will, in many cases, >either pool their resources (maintainers, in this case), or >get their upstreams to start handling their RADB entries. > > The end result? Merit will recover a lot less of >their costs than they might expect, and the larger ISPs >out there will get hit hard -- suddenly they're doing a >lot more administrative work than they used to have to. > > Smaller ISPs and people who just don't care enough >will stop using the RADB or not start in the first place >if they perceive the obstacles as outweighing the benefits-- >thus making it a less effective resource than it is today. > > Short term, because Merit hasn't been very public >about it to date, even on this mailing list (which was the >first on my list), a lot of people will be receiving bills >they're unaware of, and may or may not be able to get paid >on time -- presuming the maintainer contact was even up to >date in the first place -- so a lot of objects go away in >the database, and the internet will become a much less >happy place until things are resolved. > > I don't have an issue with the cost recovery aspects, >I just feel that this is rather short notice, and also rather >poorly timed (a lot of people are still busy with y2k issues, >it would have been better to wait until sometime next year). > > --msa > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc [email protected] LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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