[arin-ppml] Fee structures for ARIN

[John Curran]

On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Jack Bates wrote:

> Actually, I think the larger issue, is a /24 will end up being pennies. ISP's hold huge sums of /24s, so averaging them out means the single /24 end-users will have a bill too small to pay. You would have to set a base fee, subtract the base fee from ARIN's budget total, then apply the equation to average out the resource utilization.
> 
> So an end-user assignment might pay $base_fee + $0.01 for their /24.
> 
> ARIN: 37 /8
> Administered by ARIN: 39
> 
> So, ARIN has 2,424,832 /24s, double if the 39 administers are LRSA.
> 
> Take your budget, subtract ($base fee ($100?) * entities), then divide by the appropriate /24 number. Something tells me, it is way below $1 per /24. This is a rough estimate based on v4 alone. If the equation balances properly between v4 and v6 size differentials, then the value should still be close to the end result.

ARIN's full budget is approx $15M annually; feel free to propose 
a fee structure that you believe is appropriate.

Thanks,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN