[ARIN-consult] Consultation on Transfer Fees Now Open

[Paul Andersen]

David,

The motivation here was not about increasing our overall revenues but 
rather dealing with what was seen as an area where a non-negligible 
number of requests were not being covered by a transaction fee or a 
subscription plan. Having requests abandoned has obviously been 
something that has occurred regularly on all types of requests through 
ARIN history. The relatively small number of those abandoned requests 
made status quo acceptable; however, in this case the view was the 
number of abandoned requests combined with a non-negligible amount of 
work being done per request could not be ignored.

The overall fees are something I believe the Board is committed to 
continuing to review periodically and where it deems necessary adjust to 
provide for an equitable, cost-recovery process,

With that in mind thank you to all who have commented and I hope 
continue to comment to provide the Board with valuable community 
feedback. It is very helpful in our decision process.

Cheers,

Paul

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Paul Andersen
Chair, Board of Trustees
ARIN

> On Sep 6, 2016, at 5:44 PM, David R Huberman <daveid at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Hello John,
>
> Thank you for the reply.
>
> If we accept the fundamental idea that ARIN should be charging on a 
> cost recovery basis, it seems fair that if ARIN staff are spending 
> more time on transfers, and 25% of transfer tickets are not having 
> their costs covered, that ARIN should change things around. So 
> conceptually, I support the idea being proposed.
>
> But the real numbers are less persuasive than the concepts.  We're 
> talking a difference of just about $125,000.  Which is 6 tenths of a 
> percent of ARIN's budget.
>
> I therefore OPPOSE this change, as the wrinkles it introduces into an 
> opaque and volatile IPv4 address market are scarier than the thought 
> of ARIN not recovering an extra $125,000 next year.
>
> Thank you,
> David
>


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