[arin-discuss] ARIN Fee discussion

[Kirk Ismay]

> Owen, 
>
> Well, lets also examine that based on fixed fee per resource consumed.
>
> A /13 contains 2048 /24s. Xtra Large fee is $18,000. So, $18000 / 2048 is
> $8.79 per /24. That is fair.
>
> >From ARIN reports, I totalled the /24s allocated to ISP from 1999 through
> 2006 plus 01/07 through 09/07. The total came to 1,148,855 /24s. That
> doesn't tell me how many were returned. I couldn't find those stats. But
> lets use that as an example. 1,148,855 /24s * $8.79 per /24 is $10,098,435.
> Gosh, that is fairly close to the ARIN budget. And of course, then no one
> would be able to say, "But they get them for free. How can I compete against
> that?"
>   
I would support Michael's idea of paying per /24 at a fixed annual fee 
for all sizes of organization. Would it help to call it a fee for rental 
of the IPv4 addresses? This makes it clear that IP addresses are not 
property and can't be owned by anyone.  The same per subnet structure 
should be used for IPv6 as well, obviously, though we should keep the  
current "pay the lesser of your IPv4 or IPv6 fees" waiver to encourage 
IPv6 adoption.  It may also provide a financial incentive to conserve 
address space.

If there is a significant cost to process an allocation request, then 
perhaps there should be a flat rate for that as well, for each 
application made.   This way the cost of processing the application is 
separate from the IP allocation rental.

This would also make the fee schedule easier to understand and administer.

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Sincerely, 
Kirk Ismay
System Administrator

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