[arin-ppml] {Spam?} Re: Open Letter Regarding 650% Rate-Hike for Legacy Users

Fri Sep 17 13:57:41 EDT 2021

The lines between what is an end-user and what is an ISP are getting very
blurry these days. Is there really a difference between a data center, a
university campus network, an enterprise network, and a small ISP each with
a /20?

No, this isn't revenue neutral for ARIN, but they have been running
deficits the past few years, and need additional revenue anyway.

Reguaring who made up the the fee structure review panel, see slide 3 of
the following;
https://www.arin.net/vault/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_32/PDF/friday/curran-fee.pdf

As for outreach;

The creation of the fee structure review panel was announced at ARIN 31,
and on at least one mailing list, if not more.
https://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-discuss/2013-April/002699.html

The fee structure review was discussed at several ARIN meetings and final
report was discussed extensively online and at least one ARIN Meeting;
https://www.arin.net/vault/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_34/PDF/friday/curran-fees.pdf

You know the saying, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can make it
drink." Well unfortunately, there is a corollary, "some people don't pay
attention, until they get the bill."

I'm not sure I completely agree with all the decisions, but there has been
a lot of outreach and the series or decisions that lead us here hasn't been
done in secret, as far as I'm concerned it all has been above boards.

Thanks

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 11:32 AM Mark McDonald <markm at siteserver.com> wrote:

> John,
>
> I just came across your spreadsheet of fee increases.  It pretty much
> summarizes what I’ve been saying - this isn’t a neutral harmonization of
> fees, it’s a 20% rate hike on roughly 40% of ARIN’s customers that
> disproportionally affects ARIN’s smaller customers, with Large being the
> middle tier in ARIN’s fee schedule, while targeting end users that use a
> fraction of the services of an ISP.  In nearly 20 years we’ve opened 5
> ticket and in all cases, chose to better optimize IP space rather than pull
> from a finite resource (IPv4 address space).  That works out to about
> $1000/ticket - does it really cost ARIN more than $1000 to respond to a
> ticket?
>
> It would be nice to show in that spreadsheet how many IP’s are represented
> in each Category - both RSP and End User.  My assumption, and I could be
> wrong, is that these fees are going towards users who are already paying
> 30-40x more than those utilizing the most resources.  The previously
> proposed $800/object almost seems like a bargain compared to what’s being
> proposed for us.  This isn’t about the money, it’s about the principal of
> what users ARIN is raising fees on.
>
> I’m curious as to who made/makes up ARIN’s Fee Structure Review Panel and
> why wasn’t outreach done back then?  I was sure notified from 3 different
> departments when ARIN blasted out fee increases of 650% so it seems capable
> of better communication.
>
> What should happen is ARIN truly engages it’s customers and if it needs
> 20% more revenue so badly, perhaps look at taking it from the companies
> that have profited most from the services you provide and who already pay a
> tiny fraction of what smaller users do for the resources (IPv4 addresses)
> they consume.
>
> I need to get back to vendor negotiations.  I’m trying to get Verisign to
> reduce our domain renewal rates by 99.61% because we only use their API and
> don’t consume even a tiny fraction of resources of what a retail customer
> does and they only discount our rates by like 8% - crazy right?!  They’re
> pushing back stating that domain names are a limited resource and we’re
> going to make a boat-load of money off of my proposal by buying nearly
> every domain at 3/10ths of 1% of their normal customer but they simply
> don’t understand the volume we’ll be able to bring.  I’ll keep you posted
> on how my negotiations go.
>
> -Mark
>
> On Sep 17, 2021, at 4:36 AM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
>
> On 17 Sep 2021, at 3:52 AM, hostmaster at uneedus.com wrote:
>
>
> Some have suggested the fee should not have a relationship to the number
> of addresses, but I strongly disagree.
>
> For the most part, the more addresses you have, the more SWIP transactions
> and reverse lookups and customer service transactions are going to take
> place, so it is quite proportional.
>
>
> Albert –
>
> This is incorrect – i.e. the assertion that ARIN’s costs are proportional
> to the span of address space represented by registry objects – and it is
> also likely beyond the possibility of physics (as noted below.)
>
> Larger entities almost always have dedicated personal who knowledgable of
> ARIN and our processes – while they may make some additional customer
> services transactions (due to acquiring additional resources or using more
> advanced services), it would be highly unusual for any of them to make
> hundreds of more frequent customer service requests, let alone the
> thousands, or hundreds of thousands, that you suggest and would be
> necessary for ARIN to bear a proportional cost burden due to servicing such
> organizations.
>
> There are significant fixed costs of operating the registry and these
> fixed costs are predominately related to the number of organizations that
> must have billing relationships with ARIN and the number of resource
> entries in the registry – they are _not_ proportional in any manner to the
> size of the address space span represented by the registry objects.
>
> Note – In 2014, the previously mentioned Fee Structure Review Panel looked
> at an approach that sought recover a fixed amount per registry object and
> use rather significant transactions fees to correspond more directly to the
> level of effort for recovering costs of registration service requests (aka
> Proposal #7 “Transaction Fee Proposal” in the previously referenced
> report.)  It was clear that such an approach would quite significantly
> penalize the smaller registry users, as it results in per registry object
> fees of more than $800 per object per year and larger  transaction fees.
> The fact of the matter is that ARIN’s present geometric registry fee scale
> burdens organizations with the largest number resource holdings far in
> excess of their imputed costs to ARIN, and while this is obvious, it was
> also felt to be overall reasonable because the _benefit_ obtained could
> also be deemed to be disproportionate.
>
>
> FYI,
> /John
>
> John Curran
> President and CEO
> American Registry for Internet Numbers
>
>
>
>
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