Re: Why does Sprint have address filters again?

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () priori net>]

At 01:34 PM 5/31/98 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:

> Uh, hold on a second....
>
> I didn't say to make the first ASN "unreasonably" expensive (and I do
> believe $500 is unreasonable).

No, you just said "This does make sense - a lot of sense." when Jamie
Scheinblum suggested that "unbundled" ASNs be made unreasonably high.

> However, with a REASONABLE first ASN fee (ie: $50 or thereabouts) bundling
> THAT with a /19  when you get your first PI allocation is even more
> reasonable.

While I agree that $500 *might* be too high, I honestly do not think
something on the order of $200 or $250 would be too high, especially as a
"one time" fee with the $30 recurring charge.

> After all, the justification for the IP space encompasses that for the ASN,
> so the work has already been done, and the additional effort at that point
> should be literally a few keystrokes.

Good point.

> My proposals to fix the issue with regards to getting a /19 if you're
> multihomed are also out there; has NANOG seen them?

I have not.  But I haven't been following this as closely as I probably
should have.

> Karl Denninger (karl () MCS Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin

TTFN,
patrick

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