Address space for individuals

Simon Poole wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 20 May 94 17:32:13 BST you said:
> > >One point I'd suggest though -- I don't believe it would be realistic
> > >to expect a uniform charge across Europe. As with everything else in life,
> > >costs will vary from country to country. One discussion point will be
> > >whether one wants the idea of free competition across Europe, with
> > >customers "shopping around" (the Maastricht ideal, I suppose), or a
> > >situation where customers aren't "allowed" to apply in other than
> > >their own country (ie regulation, or a cartel, depending on your view.)
> 
> A note on the side: not allowing purchase of IP addresses in other
> countries would very likely be illegal at least inside the EU including
> any other restrictions on usage of not nationally obtained IP addresses.
> 

I can't see this. Don't take it as buying but paying sort of tax for it.

> > >If the latter then there's an interesting consequence of what to do
> > >if a one country's Last Resort Registry starts charging unreasonably
> > >high prices ... this is a problem that hasn't been solved yet in the
> > >well known area of line provision!
> > 
> > Imagine the havoc it would play on CIDR if everyone shopped around
> > to save a few ECUs on an IP address.   RIPE could come out with
> > a recommendation range, i.e. $10-$30 per class C.
> 
> The main problem is that if it's a small enough ammount to be painless,
> it's too expensive to bill for (a one time bill for $10 is clearly not
> going to make any sense at all).
> 

It should be *no* problem to do this for a 2 or 3-year period (one time for
setup, recurrent for maintaining). This would give a "bill" for about $50 once
in three years.

> Simon

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