On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:45:08PM +0200, Ton Engwirda wrote:
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:
The european ISP community agreed that it is reasonable to charge an administrative fee for the services related to the assignment of IP address space, but that there should be no charge for the addresses as such. Please see the document 'Charging by Local Internet Registries' under the following URL for more details:
So fees like mentioned on
"10 Extra Ip nummers Setup fl.50 Maandelijks fl.75,00 "
are not acceptable?
Depends on whom you ask :) Most people here will agree that the IP addresses should not cost anything but the mentionend administrative fee related to the assignment. However, an ISP may still charge you extra for actually routing these addresses. For example, each IP address can be the target of a Denial- of-Service-Attack, and the ISP might want to cover part of the risk with the extra fee. The ISP could also strive for conservation of IP address space and charge extra for IP addresses just to make sure that people only get as many IP addresses as they really need. A high initial fee might not be sufficient. And yes, I doubt that there are ISPs that follow this reasoning even when it sounds like a modern market- oriented method. Also, if you don't get assigned IP addresses yourself but if the ISP is using some from his own assignment (which may or may not be the correct way according to RIPE rules) then he is free to charge you whatever he wants, not for getting addresses assigned though (you don't get any), but for using his addresses. latter case. The extra IP addresses are a value adding feature of the product (== Webserver) and that's what adds to the price. Regards, -- i.A. Michael van Elst / phone: +49 721 9652 330 Xlink - Network Information Centre \/ fax: +49 721 9652 349 Emmy-Noether-Strasse 9 /\ link http://nic.xlink.net/ D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany /_______ email: hostmaster@xlink.net [ KPNQwest Germany GmbH, Sitz Karlsruhe ] [ Amtsgericht Karlsruhe HRB 8161, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Koen Bertoen ]