Hi, On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:55:13PM -0600, Jim Fleming wrote:

If that is the case, then why do you need this *now* ?

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We need to have reverse delegation for the 3FFE space, under ip6.arpa, and this has to happen *now*, not "at some point far away to the future when 6bone has ceased to exist and everybody is living peacefully under the RIR's hoods".

This is necessary to make reverse resolving with standard-compliant programs work. This is completely unrelated to the location or number of root name servers.

Also, do you really think control of .ARPA will move outside of the U.S. ?

Control of .ARPA is a completely unrelated topic, but if necessary, I'm sure it would be possible.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

At $168,000,000 per /8 per year, that is a nice revenue stream to have. How can RIPE pay that ?

I have no idea why you keep repeating those figures again and again, but as I have told you in a private mail already today: this is pure nonsense. The RIRs and ccTLDs do participate in IANA funding, but the amount of money is in no way related to the amount of address space issued. Straighten your facts, and stop spreading FUD. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 48540 (48282) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299