[lir-wg] RIPE Payments to ICANN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter B. Juul" <peter.juul at uni-c.dk>
To: <lir-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: [lir-wg] RIPE Payments to ICANN


> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:41:18PM -0600, Jim Fleming wrote:
> 
> > The U.S. Department of Commerce has indicated that it wants ICANN to be well-funded.
> > The market value for each /8 is about $168,000,000 per year.
> 
> What "market value"?
> 
> A market value is set by figuring out at which cost the market will still
> buy enough of an item to turn maximum profit.
> 

The Real Estate "market" is very well understood....
If an apartment rents for $15 per month, that is $180 per year with $15 (one month) going to the broker who leases it...

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A /8 is equivalent to 16,777,216 apartments (cyber hotels)...
At $15 per month, an ISP has a monthly revenue of $251,658,240 and $3,019,898,880 per year.

One month to "the broker" would be $251,658,240.