[arin-discuss] Fee changes and IPv6 address return

[John Curran]

As recently announced, ARIN has adopted a new Fee Schedule that will 
be effective 1 July 2013.  The changes help balance overall fees so that 
customers receiving comparable services are paying comparable fees 
where feasible, and to reduce, where possible, the costs for smaller ISPs.
 
ARIN has received several inquires from organizations that received /32 
IPv6 allocations which (due to policy at the time) may be significantly more 
than necessary for their networking needs.  Recent changes to policy do 
allow for organizations to return IPv6 space down to a /36 allocation if 
desired, and this may result in lower annual registration service fees for 
some organizations.

With the new fee schedule, organizations considering the return of IPv6 
address space need to carefully keep in mind that their fee category is 
based on their address holdings.  Specifically, the fee category for ISPs 
with both IPv4 resources and IPv6 resources is based on the service 
category that accommodates both their IPv6 and IPv4 address holdings, 
and hence each organization needs to review its individual circumstances.

For organizations that reduce their resource holdings (e.g. by returning 
IPv6 resources), requests for invoice adjustments should be made directly 
to ARIN via hostmaster at arin.net or using “Ask ARIN” in ARIN Online.
 
Thank you,
/John
 
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN