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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/2020 3:08 PM, David Farmer
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at
12:28 PM John Santos <<a href="mailto:john@egh.com"
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<p>Is there any way to ensure that an ISP requesting a /40
has fewer than 250 customers, so they can assign each a
/48 in order to be eligible for the smallest allocation
at commensurate cost with a /24 of IPv4?</p>
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<div>I don't think there is anything ARIN can reasonably do to
require that 3X-Small ISPs have fewer than 250 customers.
However, I'll note that even 3X-Small ISPs probably wants to
grow their business, eventually moving them into the 2X-Small
ISP category. Once they have something like 150 to 200
customers they should be able to justify an additional /24
moving them into the 2X-Small ISP category.<b> Further, even
for an ISP with 150 to 200 customers the additional $250 in
ARIN fees annually shouldn't be a significant roadblock to
their growth. </b>So, I think the natural incentives for
the growth of their business will be sufficient to regulate
this issue, and I don't think we need to micromanage this
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<p>If the bolded statement is true, why did 26 out of 30 3X-Small
ISPs elect not to double their fees? I posit they all have
significantly less than 150 to 200 customers to spread the cost
over, and their customers are extremely cost-sensitive. If they
have, say, 150 customers on average, the increased cost would be
less than 14 cents per month. If they only have 10 customers,
then the annual ARIN fees for each customer would double from $25
to $50.</p>
<p>It would be useful to hear from some of these 26 nano-ISPs about
what their customer base is and why they are so cost-sensitive. I
suspect most of us techies are completely oblivious to the
real-world concerns of these customers and that they aren't just
being incredible cheapskates. As in "$25, that won't even pay for
a decent meal" vs. "$25, I could feed my family for a week!"</p>
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John Santos
Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.
781-861-0670 ext 539
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