Fees (was: I see the Web page has been updated today..)

[Stephen Satchell]

>>     The registration fees are strictly for the operational costs of
>> ARIN. Among ARIN's responsibilities will be the management of IP
>> numbers, autonomous system numbers, IN-ADDR.ARPA inverse mapping,
>> database maintenance and verification of reassignment
>> information. Operational costs to support these services will include
>> equipment, connectivity, facilities and personnel.
>>
>>     The membership fees will pay for facilities for the bi-annual
>> membership meetings, expenses related to Board of Trustee meetings and
>> other membership services as suggested by the membership. The Board of
>> Trustees and Advisory Council are voluntary positions and involve
>> renumerations.


Why is the ARIN dealing with a *domain* problem, IN-ADDR.ARPA?  Because
this is a *name* issue and not an *address* issue, I suggest the registry
not be involved in this hassle.  Rationale:  a system administrator need
only deal with one agency to fix all domain name problems; by having ARIN
manage a name space the problem becomes one of dealing with multiple
agencies on the same problem.  <OFF-TOPIC> I believe that the whole process
of dealing with IN-ADDR.ARPA needs to be automated so that reverse mapping
becomes less painful to deal with.  </OFF-TOPIC>

I also feel that the registration fees also need to take care of the
overhead issues like expenses related to Board of Trustees meetings.
Membership fees should be applied *only* to membership expenses.

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