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.
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