Be careful on charging for it... I know of cases where adult-websites/spammers (who have more money than they know what to do with) will buy 8 class-C's and when one gets blacklisted, they move onto the next... by the time they're on the 8th, the 1st is available again...
If you make it a policy to charge for IP, people will not pay as much attention to the "as much as you can justify" comment. If it's free, people respect the conditions. If you can get them to respect the conditions AND pay you for it, that's the best situation... hope this helps, -marc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Dills Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 9:20 AM To: Daniel Abbey Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Co-lo best practices on IP allocations On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Daniel Abbey wrote: > > Are there any suggestions/ideas on best practices when it comes to co-lo > allocation of addresses to its customers? Is there any site that may have > some pointers? The dilemma is whether to charge or no to charge separate for > the IPs. Should it be a cause built into their overall contract? Any ideas? My approach (I don't think there is anything close to a BCP for this): Charge if they'll pay, don't if they demand it for free. It's a great fee to knock off to close the deal. But only give them what they can justify, unless they are potentially a huge revenue customer, to who you would give whatever they want (within reason). $50 per /24 at the high end, $5 per /29 at the low end. Andy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access