Cool. Off-shore oil leases bring a tidy sum. Government is trying to emulate private enterprise these days. But careful when you open this box. It could ... argh#$%. Kent is right on. /bill jones, and chargeback afficianado nasa ames research center In referenace to: --- Forwarded mail from "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>

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At 08:40 PM 6/18/96 +1000, Geoff Huston wrote:

Of course this is not always the case, and typically a public resource distribution space couples regulation with a tariff to achieve the ultimate outcome of fair and equitable distribution. The radio spectrum is perhaps the best covered territory here when looking at this space in relation to the policy debate over IP address management.

In this debate we have to take care when we talk about charging for registration, whether we are intending to: a) cover the cost of administering a resource (such as .com) b) trying to let a market set prices c) trying to cover the national debt (as with spectrum auctions) Let's just be very sure that if and when fees or prices for addresses are agreed, that someone doesn't step up and claim the right to auction addresses to cover the US budget deficit. There might be a few people in DC that would think to do that. --Kent --- End of forwarded message from "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>