----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter B. Juul" <peter.juul@uni-c.dk> To: <lir-wg@ripe.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:03 AM Subject: Re: [lir-wg] RIPE Payments to ICANN
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:41:18PM -0600, Jim Fleming wrote:
The U.S. Department of Commerce has indicated that it wants ICANN to be well-funded. The market value for each /8 is about $168,000,000 per year.
What "market value"?
A market value is set by figuring out at which cost the market will still buy enough of an item to turn maximum profit.
The Real Estate "market" is very well understood.... If an apartment rents for $15 per month, that is $180 per year with $15 (one month) going to the broker who leases it... http://www.earthlink.net/home/broadband/staticip/upgrade/ Special savings: Current EarthLink DSL customers can add a static IP address to their service for just $15 more per month*! ==== A /8 is equivalent to 16,777,216 apartments (cyber hotels)... At $15 per month, an ISP has a monthly revenue of $251,658,240 and $3,019,898,880 per year. One month to "the broker" would be $251,658,240.