[arin-ppml] fee schedule

[Jo Rhett]

So take it as my vote that this document is very hard to parse.  Just  
in reading the top 3 paragraphs I am left confused about the initial  
registration fee versus the annual maintenance fee, among others.   
There's a lot of lines of thought that just dead end when you're  
trying to figure things out.  I would try to help with the document,  
but I seriously don't understand it.

On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:42 PM, heather skanks wrote:
> To wind up paying 9k/year you'd have to get a little more than a  
> "simple
> IPv6 block for testing/deployment"
>
> "Large" bills at 9k/year - and a large is defined as "blocks equal  
> to or
> larger than a /29, up to and including a /27"
>
> I believe typical allocation is either a /48 or a /32
>
> /48 is X-small -> $1,250
> /32 is small -> $2,250
>
> This is the actual fee schedule:
> http://www.arin.net/billing/fee_schedule.html#ipv6_alloc
>
> The link you posted is the waiver schedule - in short.. they slowly  
> ramp you
> up over the next 4 years to paying the full amount for whatever  
> level you
> are at:
>
> Year    You Pay
> 2008 - 10%
> 2009 - 25%
> 2010 - 50%
> 2011 - 75%
> 2012 - 100%
>
> --Heather
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Jo Rhett <jrhett at svcolo.com> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 22, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Howard, W. Lee wrote:
>>> http://www.arin.net/billing/fee_schedule.html#waivers
>>
>>
>> Howard, I'd like to point out that this page is darn near
>> indecipherable by most people.  It has confused every person in our
>> company who tried to read it, and frankly I only learned what we  
>> would
>> be paying by calling ARIN and having it explained to me.
>>
>> And it's not the math -- I'm great at math.  It's the in-out-who-is-
>> what-huh? nature of the document.  This is a build-your-own-path  
>> story
>> that someone forgot to include the junctions in.
>>
>> And I just reread it, and now I'm even more confused than I was
>> originally.  From what I can see, acquiring a simple IPv6 block for
>> testing/deployment in our network will make us liable for $9k a year
>> within 4 years.  Why on god's green earth would I want to do that?
>>
>> --
>> Jo Rhett
>> senior geek
>>
>> Silicon Valley Colocation
>> Support Phone: 408-400-0550
>>
>>
>>
>>
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-- 
Jo Rhett
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