RWHOIS proposal

[Richard Jimmerson]

Hello Lee,

Thank you for your comments.

As you know the ARIN Board of Trustees is responsible for setting 
fee schedules.  In that light, the ARIN staff will evaluate the 
points that you have raised in your proposal in order to inform 
the Board and ARIN members of any resource impacts that your 
proposal may have.  We will place this item on the agenda for the
Wednesday, October 31, Member meeting.

Richard Jimmerson
Director of Operations
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Lee Howard wrote:

> We've begun evaluating using RWHOIS.  Among the advantages I see are
> instant updates, local access control, restricted access for bulk
> queries, privacy protection, and if I'm lucky, a chance to integrate
> RWHOIS and IRR.
> 
> The problems I'm having are that I will have to modify the code to 
> query an existing SQL database, change the output to RPSL, and cost-
> justify the work to the business.  I think ARIN can help me with the
> last point.
> 
> Presumably, organizations using RWHOIS create less work on ARIN's
> resources, whether staff, servers, or bandwidth.  In my point of view,
> organizations who create more work for ARIN should pay more (e.g.,
> companies with multiple networks, each of which is considered 
> separately).  A corollary to that would be that organizations who
> generate less work for ARIN should pay less.
> 
> I would like advice from ARIN staff on the proposition that RWHOIS 
> users require less work from them and their network and servers.  If 
> that is the case, I would like to propose that organizations using 
> RWHOIS instead of SWIP be assessed lower annual fees.  I ask for a 
> recommendation from ARIN of how much lower, proportional to the 
> reduced work. 
> 
> So, ultimately, if the membership agrees that RWHOIS is a Good Thing,
> this would create an incentive for them to use it.  If it creates less
> work for ARIN, so much the better.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lee Howard 
> 
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