Hank,

pay it. But when I recently posted in regards to our plans to charge customers for IP address registration I got all sorts of flames. When

while I don't want to join in flaming, I see some good reasons for people running a registry *now* for frowning at the financial procedures proposed or even applied unilaterally be some (only a very few?) Last Resort Registries. I'm definitely feeling worried when a Last-Resort-Registry, run by a Service Provider *upon it's own voluntary decision* starts charging for allocating addresses. I wonder whether there isn't some incentive (at least conceavably :-) to be quite generous... At the same time, running a Service-Provider Registry for an academic community, we are not able to suggest to our clientele that we are providing them withg a service that has a financial value after all... So, I'd really like to see this sorted out soon! And anything that is agreed on should equally fit the commercial ISP registries as well as the "not for profit" ones. Wilfried. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Wilfried.Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at Computer Center - ACOnet : Vienna University : Tel: +43 1 4065822 355 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : Fax: +43 1 4065822 170 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : NIC: WW144 --------------------------------------------------------------------------