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On 08/13/01, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email protected]> wrote: > > In article <[email protected][192.168.0.2]>, > Margie <[email protected]> wrote: > >MAPS as a corporation must have revenue to operate. > > Has MAPS ever talked to organisations like RIPE and ARIN? Most providers > are a paying member of those anyway. MAPS might or could be an organisation > just as important for the continuity of the internet as those ones. > If you could persuade them to work together and let them offer MAPS to > their members and pay the bill .. Remember how much shit ARIN got here when it was first announced that they'd be charging for IP addresses? That thread was much worse than the recent MAPS hubbub -- probably because MAPS has big, scary, easy-to-understand money holes like "legal fees," while all ARIN's got is "operating expenses." -- J.D. Falk a plenitude should not be wasted <[email protected]>
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