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On 19 Sep 2021, at 1:12 PM, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">On Sep 19, 2021, at 06:32 , John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net" class="">jcurran@arin.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">I actually haven’t said that – what I said is that your assertion that the costs are linear (i.e. per IP address represented) are not realistic, nor is the single fee per-registry-object-regardless-of-size approach realistic. </div>
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<div class="">Our fee schedule scales in a geometric manner, so the smallest resource holders are paying only $250/year and the largest paying hundreds of thousands per year. Does it reflect perfect cost allocation? Almost certainly not, since it generallizations
the entire ARIN customer base into a simple set of fee categories. It may not be perfect but I believe it is as
<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">simple, fair and clear as is possible under the circumstances. </span></div>
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You got two out of three. It’s as simple and clear as possible.</div>
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Thanks – that’s good to hear. <br class="">
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<div class="">It clearly subsidizes LIRs on the backs of end users that are just ever so slightly larger than the very smallest.</div>
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<div class="">It is true that the 8022 end-user customers will be paying a larger portion of overall registry expenses (totaling approx. 1/3 of ARIN's total costs), but “subsidizes” is probably not a correct characterization – as they will be paying $860 per
year on average as compared to the $2341 paid annually on average by the existing ISP customers. </div>
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<div class="">Yes, this does mean an increase in annual fee for those end-users organizations who have more IPv4 number resources, but it also means a reduction for more than three thousand end-user organizations who have the typical single /24 IPv4 address
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<div class="">Thanks,</div>
<div class="">/John</div>
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<div class="">John Curran</div>
<div class="">President and CEO</div>
<div class="">American Registry for Internet Numbers</div>
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