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<div class="PlainText">On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:19 AM, William Herrin wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:05 PM, John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:<br>
>> We're looking into an increase in the maintenance fee for both categories.<br>
> <br>
> Oh ho! So what will I get for my tripled end-user maintenance fee?<br>
> Will I have a vote in board and AC elections? Or is this to be<br>
> taxation without representation?<br>
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Since there's not an actual proposal at this point, it is hard to <br>
answer that, but the thought would be one or more of the following:<br>
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- General Membership, i.e. ability to vote in the <br>
organizational elections and associated rights<br>
and Ability to send folks to the ARIN Public <br>
Policy and Member Meeting<br>
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- RPKI services without separate fee<br>
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- STLS services without separate fee<br>
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For clarity regarding the existing registry and membership fee <br>
structure, please see the attached table.<br>
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Clearly, the intent would be to provide the same set of services <br>
for the same fees to organizations in similar situations. There<br>
is the obvious question of whether providing registry services,<br>
resource certification, and reverse DNS services should have fees<br>
independent of resources under managements, or based on number of <br>
address blocks, number of prefixes, number of individual addresses, <br>
or a factor/table lookup of one of the above. Non-trivial to say<br>
the least, and I'll be working with the Board's Finance Committee<br>
to go through permutations for recommendation to the Board.<br>
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FYI,<br>
/John<br>
<br>
John Curran<br>
President and CEO<br>
ARIN<br>
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