[arin-discuss] Size Categories for IPv6.

[Owen DeLong]

On Apr 18, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote:

> On Apr 18, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Mikel Kline wrote:
> 
>> Why not price the IPv6 addresses on a flat fee per block basis?
> 
> I agree with this sentiment.  As a membership organization, ARIN's fee structure should recover costs fairly from the membership.  The number of requests (e.g. for address blocks) may be a meaningful proxy for budgetary impact, but block size is not relevant.
> 
The costs of registration services are not linear with the amount of address space consumed.

As such, a flat fee per address would not be a fair way to recover the costs.

A flat fee per request would come closer, but, also is not completely linear because there are some cost
variables that do actually track the size of a block loosely.

The current system makes an effort to roughly correlate these things into a set of fee categories that more
or less does that.

Owen