Good intent and somewhat competent

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

Kim,

I understand fully that you need to do a full budget, and I am really not
trying to get you to commit on pieces.  If at all possible, I'd appreciate
it if you could give a sense of the range of time and average time it takes
your group to process a single allocation request.  I'm speaking of staff
hours, not duration in-and-out; I recognize there is probably an internal
review process.

In fact, it might be very useful if you could share a general idea of the
work flow from when an allocation request is received to when it is
rejected or implemented.  TO ALL READERS:  I AM ASKING FOR A ROUGH ESTIMATE
HERE...not anything that we will hold Kim to in the future.

The more I think about it, however, the more I think it might help get
rational people working together if they had a common view of the real-time
process.  RFC2050 deals with policy, an essential but different matter.

Yes, I know you have to have lawyers.  When I did clinical things, we knew
we needed infection control people and a morgue, but they were not the
first focus.

Howard

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>
>Your calculations are wrong.  For example, over the last year, the
>InterNIC allocated space directly to about 300 ISPs - the average
>size would fit in the medium range or $5,000.  *IF* each one of
>these ISPs continue to receive address space from ARIN that would
>make total revenues from ISPs $1.5M per year.  Because of the
>policies and procedures, registration services to ISPs will make
>up about 90% of all ARIN revenue.  If every one of those ISPs (which
>I doubt) sign up for membership that would be an additional $300K
>and another $100K per year for ASNs.  Total revenue for ARIN per
>year is expected to be around $2M per year.
>
>We estimate we're going to need a total of 14 operational staff
>members to start ARIN to include registration personnel, technical
>staff, business and administration - not to mention legal counsel.
>
>We plan on posting a budget, however, not until it's finalized with
>some specific numbers instead of the estimates we have now on things
>like equipment, office space, membership meeting costs, etc.
>
>If, by some chance, there is an influx of ISPs justifying address
>space from ARIN (and willing to pay for registration services) and
>the revenue exceeds the amount required to operate ARIN than the
>membership, BoT and the Advisory Council will have every opportunity
>to modify the fees and decide what to do with any excess.
>
>- kim