While there is nothing wrong with creating a pricing structure that is perceived as being more fair, you can also use price structure to create incentives to influence buying behavior in a way that allows you to achieve multiple goals, and as Owen suggests, you can accidentally create incentives that are contrary to some goals you may have.<div>
<br></div><div>Are we missing an opportunity to assist our North American networks in creating a positive business case for migrating to IPv6? </div><div><br></div><div>I wonder if any studies have been conducted that would look at how pricing strategy for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses might aide in the speed at which the migration is completed (which is also more "fair" for everyone).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dave<br><div><br></div><div> <div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Scott Leibrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scottleibrand@gmail.com" target="_blank">scottleibrand@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On John's slides, it outlines that the vast majority of organizations will have fees reduced, and that the change will be largely revenue neutral to ARIN. So I wouldn't consider this an overall fee reduction, but I do believe it makes the fee structure more fair, and better aligns the self-interest of ARIN members with the various interests of the community.<div>
<br></div><div>Overall, I support the new fee structure.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-Scott</font></span><div><div class="h5">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Jo Rhett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrhett@netconsonance.com" target="_blank">jrhett@netconsonance.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">For every situation that I've been involved with over the last few years, both ISPs and end users, this change would appear to reduce the fees paid. Is this the desired effect?<div>
<br></div><div>Note: not a single one of the companies I worked with considered the ARIN registration fees onerous or balked about them. I am not certain that a fee reduction is necessary. I'd rather see ARIN spend the budget on improving the services.<br>
<div><div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 25, 2012, at 1:17 PM, ARIN wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>We are consulting with the community regarding changes to the ARIN Fee<br>Schedule that are scheduled for implementation in January of 2013. The<br>
changes to the fee schedule including an alignment of the IPv4 and IPv6<br>fee schedules for ISPs into single set of registration services plans<br>based on total resources held, introduction of with per address block and<br>
per ASN maintenance fees for end-users, and addition of very low cost<br>category (e.g. XX-Small) for the smallest organizations.<br><br>Please view the proposed fee schedule at:<br><br><a href="https://www.arin.net/fees/proposed_fee_schedule.html" target="_blank">https://www.arin.net/fees/proposed_fee_schedule.html</a><br>
<br>In addition, a presentation was given on this proposed fee schedule today,<br>and the slides are available at:<br><br>PDF:<br><a href="https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_XXX/PDF/thursday/cur" target="_blank">https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_XXX/PDF/thursday/cur</a><br>
ran_fee_schedule.pdf<br><br>PPTX:<br><a href="https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_XXX/PPT/thursday/cur" target="_blank">https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_XXX/PPT/thursday/cur</a><br>
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