On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:44 PM, mike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@willitsonline.com">mike@willitsonline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am a small ISP and a small business that has 4 employees and under $1m/yr revenue. I depend on my ARIN as/ip assignments because my business model demands the technical features that only being an AS with PI IPv4 space can provide. I am very unhappy however with the price I pay yearly to ARIN, which operates apparently in a vacuum and in complete ignorance of fiscal responsibility, witness the squandering of it's funds which then have to come out of my pocket. I work my tail off for every dollar I make and every time I send a check to ARIN it makes my blood boil knowing how you spend it.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I couldn't agree more about the refrigerator magnets, paper mail, etc. I was literally speechless when we received the package from ARIN that probably cost $10 to mail containing stamped pens, etc. They're a total waste.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However -- are you really complaining about the roughly $2k a year that your (apparently only) /20 costs you? Maybe $1k more for an ASN? My company is about the same size as yours and in the same type of industry. The ARIN fees are extremely reasonable. This line item is so small -- even in the budget of a small business -- that this discussion has probably cost us all more in collective time than a yearly allocation fee. Give me a break.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You make some valid points, I just don't think the fees justify the discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Dave</div></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>David Gibbons</div>