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On 9 Apr 2018, at 1:53 PM, William Herrin <<a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us" class="">bill@herrin.us</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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1. Would you give us a historical perspective on the budget? What has<br class="">
ARIN spent each year since its inception in 1997? It would be helpful<br class="">
to see it in both actual and 2018 dollars.<br class="">
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<div>Bill - </div>
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<div> The entire set of annual reports are all available online here:</div>
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<div class="">2. The communications and outreach budgets total more than 1.5M which<br class="">
excludes member meetings and travel. What are they spent on?<br class="">
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<div> Communications is probably better read as “Telecommunications”</div>
<div> (i.e. composed of our main computing collocation sites and circuits </div>
<div> interconnecting same, and our additional public-facing-sites colocated</div>
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<div> Outreach includes costs of supporting events such as ARIN One the Road </div>
<div> series ARIN presence at speaking events such as HostingCon, ISPCA, </div>
<div> WISPA, and the miscellaneous support for organizations that we are present </div>
<div> at such as the US Internet governance forum (IGF), Caribbean IGF, etc. </div>
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<div class="">3. Are Bill Woodcock's 88 staff and 45 engineer numbers correct? Would<br class="">
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Yes, it is approximately correct. </div>
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<div class="">4. Would you break down the $1.5M travel budget?<br class="">
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<div> That includes travel performed by the ARIN Board of Trustees, ARIN Advisory Council, </div>
<div> ARIN ASO/AC members, and ARIN staff across all departments. </div>
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<div class="">5. What are you depreciating at more than 15% of the budget?<br class="">
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As reported in ARIN’s audited financials, ARIN depreciates major system software </div>
<div> development costs over 5 years with straight-line depreciation. (Post-implementation</div>
<div> and operational costs are expensed as incurred.)</div>
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<div class="">6. What alternatives to increasing end-user registration fees did the<br class="">
board evaluate? Why does it recommend increasing end-user fees instead<br class="">
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<div> As I noted in previous email, the Board considered the alternative of not raising the fees </div>
<div> and facing a slow erosion of the reserves over time; given the reduction in engineering </div>
<div> surge staffing planned in 2019, the annual net-to-reserves impact is modest enough that</div>
<div> a change is maintenance fees is not absolutely required, but simply prudent if we wish to</div>
<div> maintain level reserves. </div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
<div>President and CEO</div>
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