[ARIN-consult] [arin-announce] Fee Schedule Change Consultation
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Wed Nov 14 14:42:48 EST 2012
On Nov 14, 2012, at 11:27 AM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Jeremy Anthony Kinsey <jer at mia.net>
> wrote:
>
>> "Fees I think should be more directly related to resources consumed."
>
> Be very carefully what you wish for...
>
> The vast majority of organizations (end-user or ISP) making use of ARIN
> services do not need to contact the registration services helpdesk nor
> the financial team in any given year, they don't attend the twice annual
> meetings, and they may not even participate in the number resource policy
> development process.
>
> They simply wish to make use of their number resources, to be shown as
> the listed resource holder in the registry, and to have reverse DNS work.
>
> As it turns out, the actual effort related to providing those services is
> _not_ proportional to the number of IP addresses, but rather to the address
> block entry itself. (Folks should be very thankful for such, since if there
> ever were any costs actual proportional to number of addresses, no one
> would ever be able to afford to be issued an IPv6 address block... :-)
>
Permit me to rephrase Mr. Kinsey's suggestion…
Perhaps they should be proportional to the fraction of total address pool
consumed.
Owen
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