Re: [address-policy-wg] 2007-01 Last Call for Comments (Direct Internet Resource Assignments to End Users from the RIPE NCC)

[Jeroen Massar jeroen@localhost]

frederic@localhost wrote:
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> counter exemple for ?  domain ?
>
> .st  .nf  or .eu.org. all are free.
>
> Free because 1$ some time is huge. no contract because everybody is not
> hijacker and all idea may be possible.
You might have noticed that eu.org is not a TLD. You can of course also 
get 'free' dyndns.org 'sub-domains' and a lot more funny ones.
For all goes: there is no contract, thus they can, at any time, just 
delete "your" domain and you will have nothing to stand on.
The primary reasons (afaik) that folks want PI is to be:
 - independence
 - be sure that they can keep the address space avoiding
   the need to change

In your 'examples', you are not independent, as you rely on the service 
from those TLD's to a) work, b) remain free, c) remain available to you.
Also you can't rely on it that those domains remain "yours", thus you 
will have to rename your whole domain when that happens.
Unfortunately for you the Internet is not anymore that startup research 
network between a couple of schools. The Internet is commercial, and the 
Internet is global and has a lot of participants. To make sure that 
everybody is happy and can be kept happy, you will just have to sign a 
little contract and keep to it, and you will just have to pay a small 
fee for the maintenance. If you don't want either, then you will just 
have to use all the free alternatives, which don't provide you with the 
things you want.
As for the whining about any fees at all, those fees are nothing 
compared to the hardware and transit costs you will have, especially 
when you will need to buy a really big new router when a lot of sites 
get PI, or do you expect all of that for free too? (if the answer is 
yes, then ask the people who sponsor those things to also sponsor the 
little bit of cash for the prefix)
Greets,
 Jeroen

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