Co-lo best practices on IP allocations

Tue Mar 18 23:56:20 UTC 2003

Be careful on charging for it... 

I know of cases where adult-websites/spammers (who have more money than
they know what to do with) will buy 8 class-C's and when one gets
blacklisted, they move onto the next... by the time they're on the 8th,
the 1st is available again...

If you make it a policy to charge for IP, people will not pay as much
attention to the "as much as you can justify" comment. If it's free,
people respect the conditions.

If you can get them to respect the conditions AND pay you for it, that's
the best situation...

hope this helps,
-marc.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Andy Dills
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 9:20 AM
To: Daniel Abbey
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Co-lo best practices on IP allocations

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Daniel Abbey wrote:

>
> Are there any suggestions/ideas on best practices when it comes to
co-lo
> allocation of addresses to its customers? Is there any site that may
have
> some pointers? The dilemma is whether to charge or no to charge
separate for
> the IPs. Should it be a cause built into their overall contract? Any
ideas?

My approach (I don't think there is anything close to a BCP for this):

Charge if they'll pay, don't if they demand it for free. It's a great
fee
to knock off to close the deal.

But only give them what they can justify, unless they are potentially a
huge revenue customer, to who you would give whatever they want (within
reason).

$50 per /24 at the high end, $5 per /29 at the low end.

Andy

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