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Re: Independent space from ARIN
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen () sprunk org>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:22:29 -0500
Thus spake "Bill Woodcock" <woody () pch net>
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Stephen Sprunk wrote:That's why RIRs lease addresses to you, not sell them -- they get to keep collecting money forever even if they do no additional work.RIRs _allocate_ addresses, meaning that they provide the _service_ of _registering uniqueness_. You pay a _membership fee_ to support the ongoing operation of the registry, and allow it to continue providing you with the _service of uniqueness_ for your addresses. You don't buy them, you don't lease them. You buy the service of the RIR's maintenance of a database which ensures unique allocations.
When I buy real estate, I don't have to pay yearly fees to the county clerk to keep my title "unique", nor does the clerk charge me a different fee based on the size of the parcel. They are solely concerned with the number of parcels I own and making sure nobody else claims them too. This is an accepted fee structure for a "service of uniqueness". If ARIN were truly a registry, they would charge by the prefix, not by the address, and said fees would only be incurred when a change was made. ARIN's fee structure clearly has far more in common with a landlord than with a title clerk. If it walks and talks like a duck, it's probably a duck. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
Current thread:
- Re: Independent space from ARIN, (continued)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN jlewis (Apr 13)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Jeff McAdams (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN jlewis (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Jeff McAdams (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN E.B. Dreger (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Richard A Steenbergen (Apr 13)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Bill Woodcock (Apr 13)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Majdi S. Abbas (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Stephen Sprunk (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Bill Woodcock (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Stephen Sprunk (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Doug Barton (Apr 15)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Peter Galbavy (Apr 15)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Hank Nussbacher (Apr 15)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Peter Galbavy (Apr 17)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Andrea Abrahamsen (Apr 14)
- RE: Independent space from ARIN Brian Johnson (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Matthew S. Hallacy (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Brian Johnson (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Bill Woodcock (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Peter Galbavy (Apr 15)