[ARIN-consult] What do the ASN fees go to?

[Steve Noble]

John Curran wrote on 5/10/21 9:47 AM:
>
> Steve -
>
>     As noted earlier, ARIN provides many operational services for all
>     of the resources in the registry – and these services are provided
>     even for number resources that have no requests pending or when
>     there are requests pending to change information but that lack
>     proper documentation.
>
>     The consultation that is now underway is with regard to a fee
>     change proposal that does not change the maintenance fees for
>     ASN’s (although it will make them go away for many end-user
>     customers with IPv4 or IPv6 holdings due to their migration to the
>     Registration Services Plan with ASN registry services already
>     included :-)
>

Hi John,

Since paying the fees does not guarantee that you will receive service, 
it seems clear that the fees should be based on usage, not on 
resources.  If ARIN does not provide the services, then the fee should 
be reduced or removed.

-- 
Thank you,
Steven
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