----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@ameritech.net> To: <mcade@att.com>; <lynn@icann.org>; <karl@cavebear.com>; <fausett@lextext.com>; "Richard J. Sexton" <richard@vrx.net>; "Joop Teernstra" <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>; "Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>; <plzak@arin.net>; <afnog@afnog.org>; "Joe Baptista" <baptista@dot-god.com> Cc: <chandley@ntia.doc.gov>; <nvictory@ntia.doc.gov>; <censslin@ntia.doc.gov>; <DEvans@doc.gov> 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@att.com> > "I can still see it feasible to have all secretariat services funded by ICANN's budget." > ======= > > 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 > ========= > > 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 > >