[lir-wg] "fees do not add up" ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil at COLT.NET>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:49 AM
Subject: RE: [lir-wg] Re: 50% increase in RIPE fees ? Since when ?


> Sorry Andre but I'm with Peter on this one. The RIPE fees simply
> don't add up, its an expensive organisation and it needs to trim
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The fees have to add up, money just does not disappear....or should not....

Do the math, there is $168,000,000 per year per /8 in "broker fees"...
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

Where is it ?

http://www.earthlink.net/home/broadband/staticip/upgrade/ 
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