[arin-discuss] IPv6 as justification for IPv4?

[Michael Tague]

As a smaller ISP ($600k/yr revenue), I have always felt that ARIN's fees to
us feel very high.   We currently pay $4500/yr and under the new fee
schedule would pay $4000 (though I see from this discussion that we may
qualify for $2000 because some of our IP space is legacy -  TBD).  That
means we are paying (currently) 0.75% of our annual revenue to ARIN.

Below I've expanded upon rcl at usfamily.net's table to include the Proposed
Fee Schedule as well as the Current one.   I've also added percentage
columns for each which show how many percent more the Proposed or Current
fees are compared with the Linear ($8/Class-C).

As you can see the Proposed Fees are better than the Current one by about a
factor of two, but still, both are heavily weighted against smaller
providers and in favor of larger ones compared with the Linear scale.

Size   Linear       Proposed           Current	
----  --------   --------------   ---------------
/24         $8      $500  6150%    $1,250  15525%
/23        $16      $500  3125%    $1,250   7713%
/22        $32      $500  1463%    $1,250   3806%
/21        $64    $1,000  1463%    $1,250   1953%
/20       $128    $1,000   681%    $2,250   1658%
/19       $256    $2,000   681%    $2,250    779%
/18       $512    $2,000   291%    $4,500    779%
/17     $1,024    $4,000   291%    $4,500    339%
/16     $2,048    $4,000    95%    $4,500    120%
/15     $4,096    $8,000    95%    $9,000    120%
/14     $8,192    $8,000    -2%    $9,000     10%
/13    $16,384   $16,000    -2%   $18,000     10%
/12    $32,768   $16,000   -51%   $18,000    -45%
/11    $65,536   $32,000   -51%   $18,000    -73%
/10   $131,072   $32,000   -76%   $18,000    -86%
/9    $262,144   $32,000   -88%   $18,000    -93%
/8    $524,288   $32,000   -94%   $18,000    -97%

A 16 Class-C ISP (/20) would pay $128 on the Linear scale, will pay $1,000
on the Proposed schedule and is paying $2,250 on the Current schedule.   

It comes down to what one thinks is fair or what one is paying for?

Michael Tague
tague at win.net