Hi,
On 13 Aug 2007, at 8:34 AM, McTim wrote:
First you want lower costs for LIRs, then you want freebies for an
undefined
number of networks. I would suggest that you can't have lower RIR
fees if you give away resources without compensating the RIR for
the manpower involved.
The one has nothing to do with the other.
not sure I buy this.
Maybe I can explain it more simply. If I'm selling appleberrys (new
funky device running a new O/s), and there are ten people out there
that will buy one. If I made 15, then the chances are if I give two
or three away (to gals that would never have bought one, but they
have really large breasts and they love them), then there's a good
chance that I will be able to sell another two (just because these
ladies told everyone how cool they are). ie. because I gave two away
(and spent some time with the ladies showing them how to use the new
O/s), I sold another two. This is common business practice, (heavily
used by many of your other - commercial - suppliers).
A few points to consider:
- my proposal request for IPv6 allocations for community networks,
was to be considered part of the training/education and/or marketing
'line items' in the budget - from my experience this cost will be
less than a single training session for which many are planned every
year
First of all what size "allocation" do you want them to get?
according to "IPv6 Provider Independent (PI) Assignment for End-Sites"
They would get an "assignment" of a /48. Is this what you are after?
Yes, I think I said as per PI policy....?
- AfriNIC has a surplus every year which has been put into a
'reserves' fund. I believe that reserves fund should be reaching an
acceptable level soon and I will advocate spending that money on
impacting growth of Internet usage in Africa. To me that means
supporting educational and awareness campaigns such as proposed
Reserves are a good thing. IIRC, ISOC still does some funding of
AfriNIC.
I don't think we can count on that forever.
Various activities are sponsored for various reasons. That's not
AfriNIC sponsorship.
Good point though, as per my proposal, I believe that AfriNIC are in
an ideal position to obtain sponsorship for this too...
I guess it could come down to the debate, what results in more/better
skills: AfNOG/AfriNIC training or free PI space to community
networks? I'd prefer not to go down that path as I don't think it's
an either or. Both are good and I'm sure that there are another half
a dozen good ideas worth considering.
Adiel, can you enumerate the direct cost of processing an IPv6 PI
allocation?
- Separate from the community networks proposal I'm still advocating
lower prices for small and micro ISPs.
Lower than the "Very Small" category on
http://www.afrinic.net/docs/billing/afcorp-fee200703.htm?
yes.. http://www.arin.net/announcements/2004/20041101.html
I agree that more LIRs is a good goal, as is lowering fees. I think
these are long term objectives though.
AFAIK, the board has accumulated over a years worth of operating
expenses in surplus over the past couple of years. I congratulate
those responsible (albeit that I personally cannot see why they would
really need it, kind of like the few small gold coins my dad has
hidden away in some drawer). In any case I am proposing a well
recognized concept of price elasticity (which I don't feel exists at
the large ISP level).
Please can you explain why you feel this should wait longer?
On 8/8/07, Alan Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe that community networks often use many gateways and
upstreams. It wouldn't make sense to use an assignment from one.
Not from one, but from many. Lots of folk multihome using multiple
ranges.
Interesting. So how does this work practically? With NATs?
In the spirit of "a picture is worth a thousand words", I have
We've done this. It worked (partially) for a while.. until it
broke.... and broke again .... and then the LIR3 changed their policy
and said they won't announce LIR2's space, blah blah... Also, it
doesn't work properly because of the global routes at higher levels.
I wouldn't do this again.... Even NATs are more reliable :(
They don't need PI IMHO, and I don't think they should get it for
free.
Ok, so do you think they should pay standard rates? (What I am saying
is that will basically exclude them from getting any)
It's up to them, they can become an LIR, get an assignment form an LIR
or becom End-Users. I just don't think we as the community should
give freebies to an undefined group of organisations.
If it's the 'undefined' part, then I think we can get over that. If
you don't think any network should get a sponsored assignment, I'd
like to understand why?
Third, can you define a community network? I give free WiFi to my
neighbors, does this mean I get an ASN and a PI block?
If you meet the IPv6 and ASN criteria then yes (i.e. you will need to
have a sufficient number of neighbours like the guys in Scarborough
who connected up the whole village and now have more than 100
neighbours on their network.)
ok, then what is sufficient number?
As per PI policy criteria... I think I said that?
If you want to see a micro (smaller than Very Small) then propose
that.
I think that we (Africans) need to do more stuff. We have the lowest
number of assignments and usage in the world. I think what the guys
from AfriNIC are doing is good. I'm just trying to help us all do
better. AfriNIC need not follow the rest of the world. We need to be
innovative and responsive. I'm supportive and grateful for all the
positive comments that go on the list and I think constructive debate
is good.
hth
aLan
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