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

Steve Noble snoble at sonn.com
Mon May 10 15:11:07 EDT 2021


Per the latest 990N available (2018) 18% (4MM) of the money went to 
executives.  ARIN is a non-profit.  John's compensation is the highest 
(obviously).

Notable expenses 	Percent of total expenses
Executive compensation 	$3,979,666 	18.1%




William Herrin wrote on 5/10/21 11:39 AM:
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 9:47 AM John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
>> 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.
> Hi John,
>
> Even if you include the policy process with the list and meetings (in
> addition to the registry itself) in the "services" provided to an AS
> number registrant, it seems to me that less than 10% of the end-user
> AS number fees are spent on services with the rest spent on ARIN
> overhead. If you disagree, I'd love to see a breakout of the
> accounting as you figure it.
>
> Perhaps there should be a cap on the portion of any fee which can be
> applied to ARIN overhead costs? At the least, that might encourage
> ARIN to keep overhead costs from rising out of proportion with the
> direct services to individual registrants.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>

-- 
Thank you,
Steven
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