[ARIN-consult] Fee restructuring

[Andrew Dul - andrew.dul]

On 2012-10-25 14:35, Owen DeLong wrote:
> This fee restructuring places a number of incentives in the exactly
> wrong direction.
>
> 1. In many cases (especially end users), their fees are doubled if
> they adopt IPv6. At the very least, end users should not be made to
> pay additional annual fees as a penalty for adopting IPv6. If
> anything, I would suggest that ARIN consider a structure like this:


In general, I support the new fee schedule.  There is one area which I 
believe needs consideration.  For the smallest end-user (1 IPv4, 1 ASN, 
1 IPv6) their registration fees are  going to triple from $100 to $300.  
I don't believe this is the message that ARIN wants to send to the world 
at large and these smallest organizations.  I don't know the number of 
orgs that are subject to this fee increase but my guess is that this is 
a significant number of end-user orgs.

My suggestion for end-users would be the first 3 records per org-id are 
$100, then $100 for additional records.

Andrew