<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:05 PM Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML <<a href="mailto:arin-ppml@arin.net">arin-ppml@arin.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On Sep 18, 2021, at 03:04 , John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net" target="_blank">jcurran@arin.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> You can assert that ARIN's costs are predominantly the result of “LIRs” but that doesn’t reflect reality – many of our services and functions are equivalent for an entire address block and only a small set of them are related to subdelegation functions. <br>
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IRR<br>
RPKI<br>
SWIP/RDAP/WHOIS<br>
RDNS<br>
Frequency of updates<br>
Frequency of additional requests/transfers/etc.<br>
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are all impacted more by LIRs than by end users.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, there is a difference in the impact on these services by LIR vs end-user, however I believe total size of allocations or assignments are a much better predictor of the impact on usage levels of those services.</div><div><br></div><div>So, currently end-users don't have access to SWIP, so how do you know they don't have good uses for it? Probably not good enough to pay more, but if it didn't cost more would they find uses for it? It is pretty easy to imagine it could be useful for multijurisdictional end-users to SWIP their offices in different states and countries, and I'm fairly sure there are other uses as well. </div><div><br></div><div>Also, take my WISP or small ISP example, from earlier in the thread, if there is a pricing differential on whether or not they SWIP or not, then you create a financial disincentive for them to SWIP the one or two customers they might have that justify SWIPing. So then, they either skirt or break the rules, or even worse, they don't serve those customers because that would upset their delicate financial model. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
On the other hand, there’s also the fact that the LIRs are (generally) using their addresses directly for profit (i.e. their business _IS_ (at least in part) providing IP addresses to their customers). Essentially, they are reselling RIR services.<br>
End users, OTOH, tend to be using addresses to run their organization, many of which are not for profit and some of which are even individuals or families. They aren’t reselling registration services for profit.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You're making a moral argument here, not a technical one. I'd be fine with nonprofit/not-for-profit discounts, however, nonprofits can be fairly large concerns, take ARIN itself as an example. However, personal use get's pretty fuzzy and is too easily abused, at least in my opinion. Furthermore, there are plenty of for profit uses that can make a much larger profit per IP address than selling connectivity or addressing services. Why should those uses get preferential pricing? They are still using IP addresses to make money, even brick and mortar companies are making much more of a profit from Internet sales. </div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">===============================================<br>David Farmer <a href="mailto:Email%3Afarmer@umn.edu" target="_blank">Email:farmer@umn.edu</a><br>Networking & Telecommunication Services<br>Office of Information Technology<br>University of Minnesota <br>2218 University Ave SE Phone: 612-626-0815<br>Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029 Cell: 612-812-9952<br>=============================================== </div></div>