[ppml] ARIN member in good standing?

[Scott Leibrand]

Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Scott Leibrand wrote:
>
>> AFAIK, organizations who have received IP space directly from ARIN (not
>> legacy allocations) and don't pay their membership dues get their
>> allocations revoked and their whois record removed.  Of course that
>> doesn't immediately stop them from using or routing the space, but it
>> will prevent them from announcing it to new ISPs, and could eventually
>> result in their existing ISPs no longer accepting the space.
>
> Do you have any direct experiences with this?  My experience (with an 
> ARIN member network we acquired and with a former employer) is that if 
> a member stops paying ARIN maintenance fees, nothing happens.  The 
> member can't get more space from ARIN, and if bought, that member's 
> "ARIN assets" are frozen (can't do transfers) until their account is 
> brought current.
>
> I haven't seen anything to suggest that a member can't get away with 
> ignoring ARIN's bills if that member doesn't need anything new from ARIN.
>
My experience is fairly indirect and involves some (possibly incorrect) 
assumptions.  I think this is an excellent point for ARIN staff to chime in.

-Scott