Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

[Bob Hinden]

Dennis,

>I run my business out of my home and my DSL link is an important part of
>my business. About six months ago my ISP started charging me a $20/mo. fee
>for my /27 because "ARIN is now charging us." I am unhappy about this fee
>but I understand its motivation -- conversation of IP space, though I

 From the ARIN web site I found that the minimum allocation is a /20 and 
the fee for that is $2,500/year ( 
http://www.arin.net/regserv/feeschedule.html ).  Larger allocations have 
higher charges but the price per address goes down quickly.  I would think 
that most ISP have larger allocations than a /20.
A /20 provides 128 /27 address blocks.  That works out to $19.53/year per 
/27.  You said that your ISP is charging you $20. per month.  Not a bad 
markup!  Interesting what happens when rationing starts.

>Nonetheless, with IPv6, I naively hoped, until last night, the
>conservation of space issues would go away, and thus the fees. Big duh!

The IPv6 address blocks allocated by ARIN are much much larger, so the 
price per address for an ISP is considerably lower.

Bob