On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Keith Davidson wrote:
I agree in principle with Joe, APNIC are pretty easy to deal with, and for any reasonable robuts requirer of numbers, the costs are hardly prohibitive at US$2,000 one-off, plus US$1,250 per annum.
For small prividers they are prohibitive. With prices for bandwidth dropping all the time (unlike APNIC's fees), it's possible to multihome for just one or two thousand per month. Expecting a company to pay 10% of that to APNIC for a couple of database entries and a pretty annual report is out of whack.
But I guess the argument is that some people have a class C or 2 that they pay nothing for currently and would like to continue to pay nothing.
I doubt people would object to a more reasonable charge. Currently I can get a domain for less than $US 20 per year and that will get injected in the "DNS routing table" of every provider in the world. I fail to see why a block of IP addresses should cost more. The fear here is that people who have been using these addresses for years are going to lose them and the alternatives ( via Providers or going to APNIC) are significantly more expensive and less flexable.
As I said in my previous email, InternetNZ would be happy to step up to the plate if there really is a need - but I doubt we'd be in the business of supplying free number blocks.
I think if Internetnz can supply the service for significantly less than what APNIC can then people would be interested. -- Simon J. Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.