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

We're not talking about buying real estate.  We're talking about the allocation of a natural resource, i.e. namespace.  I am not an ARIN or IP allocation expert, but I've been getting IP numbers from ARIN for a long time and I seem to be in the second highest tier of fee level.  I pay the fee just under what AT&T pays, Sprint pays, etc. and probably will eventually pay the same fee.  It would seem that ARIN should try to incur only the barest expenses in the performance of its mission while fairly allocating the costs to the members according to their impact on the expenses of ARIN.  As far as I can tell, my small regional company pays $9,000 per year and AT&T pays $18,000 per year.  Am I missing something?  Shouldn't the largest communications company in the US pay more than twice as much as my company?  
 
 

 
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From: Dean Anderson [mailto:dean at av8.com]
Sent: Fri 10/5/2007 4:25 PM
To: Chad Kissinger
Cc: michael.dillon at bt.com; arin-discuss at arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] [ppml]Counselstatementon Legacy assignments?(fwd)



On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Chad Kissinger wrote:


> My point is this:  In a year in which no
> requests for allocations occur, it takes twice as much effort to
> handle a member with a /19 than it does a similar member with a
> /20....

Just how is that? Many/most? legacy's don't do swip. [I'd advise against
swip, because it exposes your customer database to your competitors.]


> I just think they're unfair.

Its unfair that the guy who buys a house in the first phase of a new
housing development pays less than the guy who buys the exact same house
in phase 2.  Or is it? The guy who buys in phase one takes a bigger
risk: The risk that the housing development won't be finished, or won't
be attractive, and his unseen house won't be as nice as the brochure
says it will be.

The folks who buy in phase 2, can see the houses are nice, and that the
development is attractive, and that there is value in what they are
getting.

There is no unfairness benefiting legacy's. We legacy's also took
greater risks by getting in early.  We put in more effort.  If it
weren't for our effort, you wouldn't be making money now off the
internet.

You really should be putting a profit-sharing check in the mail each
month to the legacy's. That would be fair.  Paypal is fine. Oh wait,
that uses the internet, too. How ironic.

                --Dean


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