Why does Sprint have address filters again?
Karl Denninger
karl at mcs.net
Sat May 30 02:08:33 UTC 1998
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 04:55:49PM -0400, Doug Humphrey wrote:
>
>
> > Charging reasonable costs (ie: the kind of fee that the Driver License
> > bureau charges, ergo, $10 or so) for the first ASN is reasonable.
>
> The drivers license world defrays their fixed overhead costs
> across millions of drivers a year who get renewals done - there
> are not that many ASNs and other things done a day. Again, as
> a businessman Karl, you should understand that already.
The Federal Government has set up a corporation for "E-Rate" connections.
These are the "libraries and schools" program you keep hearing about.
To bid on these, you must have a SPIN, or service provider ID number.
To get one of THOSE, you make one call to an 800 number, they assign the
number, send you a packet of info, you fill it out, and send it back.
That's it.
I know this, because MCSNet has one of these things since we've had a bunch
of schools and libraries call us requesting Erate quotes over the last
couple of months.
Total cost to the ISP to get a SPIN: $0.00
Now, let's look at the parallels:
1. Both are required to "do business" in a given sector (ie: announce
routes, sell to the Erate customer base)
2. Both are simple *technical* providers (assignment of a number, with
the important being that it is unique in both cases).
3. One is free to the ISP.
4. The other costs $500.00
> You are either charging a price to defray costs, or you are
> changing a price to encourage/discourage behaviour. In the
> two cases, the answers to "what is the correct price" are
> radically different, so we need to decide what the goal is
> before determining if the current price is good or bad.
>
> Doug
What is going on here? ASNs didn't used to cost money until ARIN got its
claws into them.
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