Re: Address space for individuals
- Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 17:10:43 +0100
Hank,
>pay it. But when I recently posted in regards to our plans to charge
>customers for IP address registration I got all sorts of flames. When
while I don't want to join in flaming, I see some good reasons for
people running a registry *now* for frowning at the financial
procedures proposed or even applied unilaterally be some (only a very
few?) Last Resort Registries.
I'm definitely feeling worried when a Last-Resort-Registry, run by a
Service Provider *upon it's own voluntary decision* starts charging for
allocating addresses. I wonder whether there isn't some incentive (at
least conceavably :-) to be quite generous...
At the same time, running a Service-Provider Registry for an academic
community, we are not able to suggest to our clientele that we are
providing them withg a service that has a financial value after all...
So, I'd really like to see this sorted out soon!
And anything that is agreed on should equally fit the commercial ISP
registries as well as the "not for profit" ones.
Wilfried.
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