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From: "Jim Fleming" <JimFleming(_at_)ameritech(_dot_)net>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 8:19 AM
Subject: "I can still see it feasible to have all secretariat services funded
by ICANN's budget."
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc10/msg04947.html
From: "Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade(_at_)att(_dot_)com>
"I can still see it feasible to have all secretariat services funded by
ICANN's budget."
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It seems to me that you first have to get the ICANN funding and funders
properly arranged.
Some do not appear to be paying "rent" for their IPv4 32-bit address space.
Some also do not
appear to be properly accounting for these assets to their shareholders. As
an example, each
/8 allocation is worth between $1 and $2 billion dollars, based on the
ability to sub-lease the
individual IPv4 addresses at $10 per month to consumers. Those assets should
appear on a
company's balance sheet and be part of the annual report. It does not appear
that AT&T does
that for the following asset.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
012/8 AT&T Bell Laboratories Jun 95
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The above asset was apparently split between AT&T and Lucent Technologies at
the time
Lucent was formed and after that. That does not appear to be reflected in the
above allocation.
You might want to advise the manager of 0:0 .ARPA and IN-ADDR.ARPA on who
actually
owns that asset.
With respect to leasing the asset, and funding ICANN, if one assumes the $1
per year per domain
name fee, that would likely fund the operation with approximately $50,000,000
per year. Assuming
that may not happen, that $50,000,000 would have to come from some other
source. The management
of the 0:0 .ARPA zone would be that source. ARIN, RIPE and APNIC already pay
some token
amounts for their allocations. If one assumes 250 of the 256 blocks can be
leased, and charges the
same for each block, then the annual fee for AT&T (and Lucent) would be
$200,000. ARIN would
of course have to pay that for each /8 they are allocated.
In the new 128-bit DNS system, the IPv4 32-bit non-TOS=0 address space is
managed in blocks
by 8 (eight) TLD managers. That spreads the management around, and makes it
more stable and
immune from a single-point-of-corporate failure. It also makes it possible to
manage allocations for
low-cost or no-cost. That of course is not possible with the legacy 32-bit
IPv4 Internet, where assets
are controlled by a small number of companies, which have to properly account
for those assets
to their shareholders, as well as the expenses related to those assets.
Jim Fleming
2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB:...IPv8 is closer than you think...
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
0:0 .ARPA