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

[David R. Conrad]

Michael,

> 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, 

No.  An ISP who is not solvent enough to pay the ARIN (or other RIR fees) has
far more difficulties to worry about than getting their own topologically
significant address block.  You yourself said the small ISPs you're so
concerned about have the money.

Again, read the CIDRD and ALE working group archives.

> The Internet started out very free, 

No.  The Internet was _NEVER_ free.  It was paid for by (to paraphrase Ayn
Rand) sucking at the government's tit.

Rgds,
-drc