[arin-discuss] Suggestion 2010.1 -- Initial Fee Waiver for IPv6 assignments to LRSA signatories

[Owen DeLong]

On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:50 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> 
> The idea is that there's a cloud of legacy holders out there who
> are NOT LSRA holders at the current time.  Being legacy holders,
> by definition, are IPv4 holders who are paying zilch yearly
> fees to ARIN, the thought had occurred to Owen that perhaps
> some of those legacy holders might not be too keen on moving
> from a status where their networks are running on IPv4 that is
> free to them, to mixed IPv4 and IPv6 which first of all costs
> them money, and second of all means they have to sign a
> LSRA that basically moves them from this legal limbo where
> ARIN has no control over them, to a defined legal status
> where ARIN has some control over them (although not enough
> to start charging them money), and last of all means they
> will have to start paying a yearly fee.
> 
Um, Ted, you are mistaken here.  Those who sign LRSA do pay
the annual $100 end user fee.

Owen