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<span>John Curran wrote on 5/10/21 9:47 AM:</span><br>
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Steve - </div>
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class=""><div>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
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<div>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 :-) </div><br>
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Hi John,<br>
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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.<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>Thank you,<br>
Steven<br>
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