[ARIN-consult] Consultation on ARIN Fees

Fri Apr 23 10:03:55 EDT 2021

On 23 Apr 2021, at 1:42 AM, Larry Blunk <ljb at merit.edu<mailto:ljb at merit.edu>> wrote:

It would be incredibly helpful if we had several example cases
presented.  We have a number of members with legacy /16 assignments.
Some have signed LRSA agreements, but a number have not.  There are
some who also have RSA agreements for IPv6 space from ARIN, but have
not yet signed LRSA agreements for their IPv4 space.   There's some
confusion about what fees they would pay under the different
scenarios.

Larry -

I am quite happy to elaborate on some of situations that would be typical of your members.  In general, those with legacy IPv4 assignments who have signed LRSA’s are presently paying ARIN’s typical end-user annual maintenance fees of $150 per IP address block per year, but have the with the benefit of a total cap on legacy resource maintenance fees of $150 per organization per year (a cap which may increase up to $25 each year, and will go up to $175 in 2021)

Those who have entered into an LRSA receive all of ARIN’s registration services – including those that have been funded by the community since ARIN’s formation such as our RPKI and authenticated IRR services (Those who have not entered into an LRSA with ARIN have been receiving basic registration services for free since ARIN’s formation.)

We are transitioning to a single fee schedule for all customers, and this means that all customers will pay the same fees per ARIN’s Registration Services Plan (RSP) schedule; note that under the RSP schedule the fee category is proportional to the size their total IPv4 address holdings.   (For organizations with both IPv4 and IPv6 resources, a single fee category is utilized based on the larger of the two resource holdings - thus allowing all organizations to add proportionate amounts of IPv6 without incurring any additional costs.)  ARIN’s current Registration Services Fee schedule is here - https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/, and you will note that it is very similar to the one in the consultation; i.e. we’re not changing the RSP fee schedule but simply making it equally applicable to all customers.

Organizations that have a /16 of IPv4 number resources are considered Medium size category, and pay a $4000 annual registration services fee.  This replaces the $150 per object “end-user” fee schedule that many of your members with legacy resources pay today.  However, the total cap of legacy resource maintenance fees remains unchanged, so these organizations would pay $4000, but it is still capped and invoiced at $175 for 2021, $200 in 2022, etc.)

For organizations that have obtained IPv6 resources from ARIN under a separate RSA, the two most common size allocations are /32 (generally issued to ISPs) and /28 (generally issued to organizations for their own use).    ARIN’s RSP fee schedule considers organizations with /40 or smaller of IPv6 to be 3X-small (with a fee of $250 per year), and those who have /32 to be X-small (with a fee of $1,000 per year.)

For any of your members that have relatively small IPv4 resource holdings (i.e. between /20 and /24) and have IPv6 space from ARIN, it indeed might make sense to consolidate to a single RSA depending of the exact amount of IPv4 and IPv6 resources held - ARIN’s Registration Services Department will be able to review options with any of your members who are interested (+1.703.227.0660)

For those legacy resources holders with /16 blocks, I suspect that maintaining the separate LRSA with ARIN for legacy resource services and the applicable legacy fee cap will make the most sense (at least for the foreseeable future.)   I’ve quickly outlined the three most common cases below for your legacy IPv6 resource holders and believe them to be correct (although it has not been proofed by second set of eyes).  I’ll note that all presume that that the organizations would not consolidate to a single agreement with ARIN for reason noted above.

Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any further questions on any of this and best wishes!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers

=== ARIN registration fees for legacy /16 resource holders under LRSA today and in 2021

Organization #1 with legacy /16 IPv4 under LRSA and no IPv6 resources TODAY -

LRSA  Legacy /16 IPv4 $150 per object  Legacy Fee Cap $150 = $  150
- - -  -   =      -
    $  150 total

Organization #1 with legacy /16 IPv4 under LRSA and no IPv6 resources in 2021  -

LRSA  Legacy /16 IPv4 $4000 (Medium RSP) Legacy Fee Cap $175  = $  175
- - -  -   =      -
    $  175 total

Organization #2 with legacy /16 IPv4 under LRSA and /48 IPv6 resources TODAY -

LRSA  Legacy /16 IPv4 $150 per object  Legacy Fee Cap $150  = $  150
RSA IPv6 /48 $250 (3X small RSP)  = $  250
    $  400 total

Organization #2 with legacy /16 IPv4 under LRSA and /48 IPv6 resources in 2021 -

LRSA  Legacy /16 IPv4 $4000 (Medium RSP) Legacy Fee Cap $175  = $  175
RSA IPv6 /48 $250 (3X small RSP)  = $  250
    $  425 total

Organization #3 with legacy /16 IPv4 under LRSA and /32 IPv6 resources TODAY -

LRSA  Legacy /16 IPv4 $150 per object  Legacy Fee Cap $150  = $  150
RSA IPv6 /32 $1000 (X-small RSP)  = $1000
    $1150 total

Organization #3 with legacy /16 IPv4 under LRSA and /32 IPv6 resources in 2021 -

LRSA  Legacy /16 IPv4 $4000 (Medium RSP) Legacy Fee Cap $175  = $  175
RSA IPv6 /32 $1000 (X-small RSP)  = $1000
    $1175 total
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