William B. Norton wrote:
Interstingly enough, there was a recommendation at one point to have DHCP address assignment free, but charge $3 for a piece of paper with a static IP address.
Then someone else suggested a competitive market model was needed, with multiple static-IP-address-on-paper vendors to allow the market to produce the most efficient paper static address producers. A fraction of the $3/address would then go into an allocation fund. This allocation fund (until congress gets involved) would be then be used to lower the cost of cookies at NANOG.
Bill
Great. So ARIN will eventually be getting involved with IP assignments at NANOG too, eh? :) Louie --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Louis Lee Netcom On-line Communication Services, Inc. Senior Network Engineer Technical Service llee@noc.netcom.net Network Services Support 408-881-3165 800-613-9651