NANOG 13 Logistics Update

Thu May 7 21:07:10 UTC 1998

William B. Norton wrote:

> Interstingly enough, there was a recommendation at one point to have
> DHCP address assignment free, but charge $3 for a piece of paper with
> a static IP address.
>
> Then someone else suggested a competitive market model was needed,
> with multiple static-IP-address-on-paper vendors to allow the market
> to produce the most efficient paper static address producers.  A
> fraction of the $3/address would then go into an allocation fund.
> This allocation fund (until congress gets involved) would be then be
> used to lower the cost of cookies at NANOG.
>
> Bill

Great.  So ARIN will eventually be getting involved with IP assignments
at NANOG too, eh? :)

Louie
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