Re: Private address and static IP as an commercial offer.
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:27:11 +0200 (MET DST)
Hi Arif.
Arif OKTAY wrote:
> 1- Address Translation and Private Address Space Usage. Some of my
> customers want to use public addresses with no technical reason. Their main
> concern is to avoid the extra expenditure for a NAT/proxy/firewall. Should
> I force them to use one ?
I wouldn't do so. Since it is not mandatory or at least strictly recommended
to use NAT etc. the customer certainly can ask for public address space to
connect his LAN or whatever to the Internet. And I would consider the try
to avoid unnecessary expenditure (from their pont of view!) as quite reaso-
nable - especially if it's a small, just starting company.
Nevertheless it should generally be pointed out that the use of NAT etc. does
have some benefits, i.e. address space conservation, and a LIR should offer
this to customers as the first choice.
> 2- I've seen the following advertisement on the net. Doesn't this
> constitute a violation of the policy as " IP addresses does not have any
> commercial value". There wasn't any extra info whether this amount was
> billed for dns records or any other service. Advertisement was from ARIN
> region.
The absence of some mentioning of extra costs due to a static IP address
doesn't imply the selling of an IP address itself for me, since inherently
there might be some additional service costs for that (router config, reverse
mapping etc. pp.) - but the question weather US$ 15/m (iow. US$ 180 per year!)
for this kind of service are appropriate or not is another one...
Best regards,
Carsten
iPrimus Telecommunications GmbH, Germany
