Comments on ARIN proposal

[William Allen Simpson]

> From: randy at psg.com (Randy Bush)
> What classes of membership would you suggest, and what would their different
> rights and privileges be?
>
We should follow the APNIC and RIPE models, with merely a "privilege" of
additional votes:

    Membership is open to any person or organization that operates a
    network or local registry, has registered or desires to register an
    Internet address block, Autonomous System Number, or other value in
    the range(s) assigned to this Registry, and has paid the appropriate
    membership dues:

          Membership dues shall be assessed annually, based on the
          self-reported member size, by the following schedule:

                             rate    vote       recommended size
             enterprise:      $50       1       /21 or less
             small:          $800       2       /19 or less
             medium:       $6,400       3       /17 or less
             large:       $25,600       4       /16
             super:       $25,600 * N   4

          In addition to the membership dues, an initiation fee shall be
          assessed new Members that have not previously been allocated
          any Internet address blocks, by the following schedule:

             $1,000 each

Note, that's self-reported!  Apparently, there is an issue with
requiring financial statements for APNIC or RIPE (or ISP/C), which use
income for the classes, and thus they decided on self-reporting.

In this case, widespread use of private non-global addresses [rfc-1918]
could alter the fee, and the member should be able to choose size.

And note the use of an initiation fee to provide for training expenses
(as both APNIC and RIPE), instead of inflated membership rates.  There
was a _lot_ of support for splitting the initial training/education out.

WSimpson at UMich.edu
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