Re: [IFWP] Re: [aso-policy] RE: [aso-comment] IP address holders - are they represented?

[Greg Skinner]

Michael Sondow wrote:

> I think that the smaller ISPs are too intimidated by the power of
> the upstream providers to make any sort of complaint. Only an
> organization like ISPA could do that, and they won't because the
> power there is with the larger independent ISPs who control their
> own block.

Have the smaller ISPs ever approached EuroISPA or any of the other ISP
associations and asked them to lobby on their behalf?

> These are problems caused by the RIRs, IANA, and now ICANN. They may
> have some basis in the topology of routing, but they are
> fundamentally problems of economic model, the present one being
> favorable to concentration, merger, centralization, and monopoly,
> rather than decentralization, independence, and free enterprise.

I think it is fair to be concerned about the economic model for IP
address allocation.

An alternative for the ISPs you feel are getting squeezed is to try to
enter into private peering arrangements with other ISPs.  Perhaps
these ISPs could form their own association and apply for a routable
IP block.

--gregbo
gds at best.com