[ARIN-consult] [arin-announce] Fee Schedule Change Consultation

[Owen DeLong]

On Nov 12, 2012, at 14:10 , John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:

> On Nov 12, 2012, at 5:00 PM, "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr at baby-dragons.com> wrote:
> 
>> With the reduced fee's for an end user /24 (what looks to me as) $100 .
>>   This would reduce my heart ache quite a bit .  I already have an ASN
>>   (19274) for which I pay the $100 annual maintenance fee .
>> 
>>   My question is what would my end user fee be for this combination , ipv4/24 & ASN be ?
> 
> As proposed, there would be a $100/yr end-user maintenance 
> fee for each of the IPv4 block and for each AS number (for a 
> total of $200/year in your example)
> 
> There has been some discussion to include end-user maintenance 
> for 1 IPv4 block, 1 IPv6 block, and 1 AS number for a single $100 
> annual fee, and $100 for each additional resource.  If that change 
> is adopted, your total would be $100/year.


I also find it interesting that under the current proposed end-user restructuring,
a small multihomer that has a /23, a /24, and a /48 with an ASN would have
their fees quadruple from $100/year to $400/year while a very large corporate
legacy holder (e.g. Apple, HP, MIT) that still refuses to sign the LRSA or 
ANY RSA would have their fees remain at $0.

Perhaps it would be worth while to consider as part of this fee restructuring:

1.	Removing the fee exemption for legacy holders.
and/or
2.	Basing the fees on total address holdings rather than number of blocks.

Owen