For two years Israel has been handling "allocations" in a free fashion. Lately, as I am sure with everyone, the burden of registering IP class C networks, domain names, contact people, inverse domain names, and routing updates is taking more and more of our time, personnel and our national DNS primary CPU. It is not uncommon for sites that have no Internet connectivity to request IP numbers for their private networks. It is not uncommon for local dialup (SLIP) service providers asking for us to register domain names on their behalf and then charging their customers a monthly fee for the "privilege" of owning their own "DNS" entry. When the entire matter was on a one or two request per month basis, the university non-profit consortium was able to handle the requests on a volunteer basis. This is no longer the case. We have no NSF to fund a scaled down Internic (which handles requests free of charge since it is government funded) on a national scale and since RIPE NCC charges its member countries an annual fee we have to find a "fair" way to recover not only the RIPE NCC costs but also the local manpower and computing costs. We are planning on implementing the following surcharges: - Any organization wanting a class C IP network will be charged $xx per class C network assigned. - Any organization wanting a domain name assigned in the .il domain will be charged $xx. - Any organization that wants ILAN to handle inverse domain name registration will be charged $xx. - Any organization that wants its IP network to be routed globally will be charged $xx. I would like to hear what other countries who are in a similar position are doing in this area. Should we already start discussing numbers? Thanks, Hank