[arin-discuss] [ppml] Counsel statementon Legacy assignments?(fwd)

[Michael Sinatra]

Chad Kissinger wrote:
> 
> It would seem to me that the fee should be based on a per-IP number
> basis.  Why should some company that has many, many times my allocation
> pay less than twice as much as I do per year?  
> 
> I think the argument that what you are really paying for is registration
> service is specious.... what am I paying for in a year in which I don't
> require any registration services?  I've been in the ISP business now
> for 14 years and I think I've gone through approximately 5 allocations
> in that time... most years I don't need any registration service at all.

Presumably, during that year, someone (probably many, many people) tried 
to do rDNS lookups in your IP block.  Many people probably did whois 
lookups for that IP block.  Making rDNS and whois work is part of ARIN's 
registration service and it is a constant operation.

michael