[arin-discuss] fee waivers

[Owen DeLong]

On Jun 23, 2010, at 2:35 AM, <michael.dillon at bt.com> <michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote:

>> but this case would be covered under "community networking" which had
> a
>> separate policy process and the arin community already ruled against
>> fee waivers in this case. i am not reraising that issue, dead is dead.
>> however, it's worth keeping the record straight, an IX with legitimate
>> participants can still in some cases have no bank account.
> 
> Bottom line then is that most end users don't need a fee waiver
> because IPv6 is free from their ISP and they should have no
> problem getting a /48 even if the ISP normally hands out smaller
> prefixes.
> 
> End users who really, really need to have a portable assignment 
> can pay a one time fee to ARIN and that fee is already low enough
> that we don't consider it a barrier to IPv6 deployment.
> 
Let me paraphrase that a little:

Bottom line: End users should be treated as second class citizens.
If they don't want to be second class citizens, it's OK for us to require
a certain level of wealth in order to treat them otherwise.


Owen