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

[Jesse D. Geddis]

John,

I'm confused. How could paying almost 300x more per IP be construed as benefiting smaller organisations?

Jesse Geddis
LA Broadband LLC
ASN 16602

On Nov 14, 2012, at 12:45 PM, "John Curran" <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:

> On Nov 14, 2012, at 2:27 PM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
> 
>> Be very carefully what you wish for...
> 
> (and apparently one should also be very careful using spell checkers... :-)
> 
>> 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... :-)
> 
> FYI - For folks interested in ARIN's costs based on a functional (as opposed
> to the typical departmental budget model), I presented a breakdown at the ARIN 
> Philly meeting -
> <https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_XXVIII/PDF/friday/curran_cost_breakdown.pdf>
> 
>> So, the reality is that each issued IPv4 and IPv6 block (and to some 
>> extent each issued AS number) imputes very similar costs on ARIN as an
>> organization.  Note also that if we really wanted to be fair regarding
>> costs, we should treat ISPs via the same model as end-users, and the 
>> annual maintenance fees per block would be higher due to the lack of 
>> the indirect subsidy of these costs by the ISP members, and the costs
>> for a typical ISP would drop significantly.
> 
> One reason that having disproportionate costs on the ISPs (to the benefit
> of end-users) is that ISPs are more likely to obtain some benefit from our 
> significant registry development efforts (consisting of both the policy
> development process as well as the software changes to support same) and
> our Internet governance outreach activities.  While it is not a direct
> alignment of fees to costs/benefits, it is a reasonable correlation and
> avoids the introduction of numerous fees that would be necessary if we
> tried to directly align the fees with the costs/benefits received.
> 
> FYI,
> /John
> 
> John Curran
> President and CEO
> ARIN
>