On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:20:45PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
It reduces the possible amount of applicants from "anybody out there" (many billions) to "anybody who thinks this is so important to his heart / business that he's willing to shell out serious money for it".
So you agree that an excessive number of prefixes is bad?
What is excessive? Is it "anything as long as _I_ get my prefix"?
Then the only thing we disagree about is whether the LIR fee will be enough to make the number non-excessive. It will at first, of course, but it's unlikely to do so in the long term as RIRs are not-for-profit so the more people become a LIR, the lower the fees become.
And then there are the non-for-profit orgs who want to multihome properly. You want to keep them out because they don't have enough money to spend to RIRs for that, right? Regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr@cluenet.de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0