[ARIN-consult] Consultation on ARIN Fees

[John Curran]

On 3 May 2021, at 10:25 AM, Jeff Tchang <jeff.tchang at gmail.com<mailto:jeff.tchang at gmail.com>> wrote:

I'm a 3x-Small organization (literally "the smallest end users" to
borrow Owen DeLong's terminology) chiming in.

I am also one of the smallest end users. I obtained resources in 2016 and am a bit surprised how quickly the fees are increasing (especially percentage wise). As more people adopt IPv6 fees should decrease due to scale but that doesn't seem to be happening like with other services. The proposal to increase fees on the smallest users results in a 150% increase which is drastic in my opinion over such a short period of time.

Jeff -

You raise an important issue as ARIN definitely wants to both keep fees low as possible and encourage deployment of IPv6.

For an end-user organization that simply has an IPv4 address block and no ASN or IPv6 block, it is true that their fees will increase under the proposed change from $150 to $250 annually.

However, it’s worth noting that many organizations with IPv4 also have IPv6 or an autonomous system number (ASN):  organizations that have either of these in addition to their IPv4 block will see their annual registration services fee decrease from $300 to $250 annually – this is the case for more than 2100 organizations under the proposed schedule.  In addition, several hundred smaller organizations have all three (IPv4, IPv6, and an ASN) and wipe see their annual fee drop from $450 to $250.

In your case, there will be an increase under the proposed schedule, but you will also be able to obtain an IPv6 block and/or an ASN as a result of annual fee for the 3X-small category.   We hope this will actually help promote IPv6 deployment in smaller organizations going forward since there will be no fee impact when an organization seeks a correspondingly sized IPv6 block.

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers


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