[ARIN-consult] Consultation on Transfer Fees Now Open

[Cliff Bedore]

Owen

This sounds like a reasonable approach to me but I may have a biased 
viewpoint.  I am one of the non-RSA/LRSA "owners" of a /24 that I've had 
since since 1990.  For years I was connected to the internet via a DSL 
line via Verizon to Megapath.  When the line went bad, I had to switch 
to a big provider since my provider could not offer another cost 
effective alternative.  I now have 5 non-portable addresses (Verizon in 
a twist of fate) and in theory the /24 is not in use.  I may want to 
"sell" it at some point so I would like a simple procedure where I could 
show it's been mine (see http://www.bdb.com/~cliffb/bdb_netreg.jpg) for 
a nominal fee and then be able to decide at some point later to "sell" it.

 From a practical standpoint, the simpler you make it, the more people 
will be willing to follow the rules.  I think something like Owen 
suggests would do this.

Cliff

On 9/15/2016 8:57 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> So I’ve been watching this and thinking about the situation. It occurs to me that perhaps we should consider the following:
>
> 1.	Open up a pre-approval process for resource suppliers similar to the current pre-approval process
> 	for requestors.
>
> 2.	Set a fee for pre-approval that would apply only to resources being pre-approved which are not already subject
> 	to an RSA. Ideally, this fee should be nominal, but large enough to discourage abuse of the process.
>
> 3.	Charge the same fee for any supplier of transferred resources not covered by RSA, whether at time of request
> 	or in a pre-approval process.
>
> 4.	Possibly provide some mechanism by which entities that wish to do so can have their pre-approved resources marked
> 	as such in whois and/or STLS.
>
> This fee would be separate from the fee collected for a transfer at the time of the transfer, though that fee could, potentially, be reduced accordingly to reflect the lower cost of transactions involving known resources. In this way, the seller would be responsible for paying the provenance costs and the buyer would be responsible for paying the administrative costs of processing the transfer.
>
> This seems like a good balance to me.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Owen
>
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