Yeah, I thought that information sounded a bit overboard. Thanks to everyone who cleared that up. Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services "Learn more, and you will never starve." - Paraphrase of Lee On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Paul E. Erkkila wrote:
There was a discussion of ARIN at ISPCON where Kim H. explained the funding policy in great detail to the people present. In this case the $2500/yr is not for each /24 registered but an annual fee paid by the ISP to buy service from ARIN (for one year) for their overall address allocation. If your total allocation is > /24 and < /19 then you only pay $2500 for that year. If it it over that then you pay for whichever tier you fall into.
At first glance I thought the policy was somewhat lopsided against an an ISP who is at the low end's of each tier. (n^2 per address bit and all), but the proposal clearly states that this is just their initial guidelines and once ARIN is formed it will be the responsibility of the ISP's who make the effort to join ARIN to set policy, including fees, tiers and renewal rates.
Paul Erkkila Frontier IOAC
J.D. Falk wrote:
On Aug 26, Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net> wrote:
I've also heard that. Another rumor is that Domain Name Registration is going to now cost $250/year, instead of $50/year.
Haven't heard that one, but I doubt they'd be that stupid.
Class C address space is going to cost you $2500/year. The $9.95/month ISPs are out of business. What's this going to do to the small and struggling businesses out there? Class B networks are now going to cost $637500 at that price. So, look for prices on everything to start going up to cover the costs for your upstream providers.
That one I have heard. The actual pricing structure in the early ARIN proposals (http://www.arin.net/) was scalable; it was never $2500 per class C unless you're getting them one at a time, in non-contiguous blocks.
These kinds of conspiracy theories are on literally dozens of other mailing lists, including NAIPR and PAGAN.
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