Re: ARIN customers / members (was: Re: questions about ARIN ipv6 allocation)

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

On 9 Dec 2021, at 1:57 PM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com<mailto:randy () psg com>> wrote:
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as i do not follow arin news, i found this even more interesting

The situation for ARIN’s IPv4/IPv6 customers will change in January,
when all customers with IPv4 and/or IPv6 number resources will pay on
the same fee table for ARIN registry services and will all be ARIN
Members and will all have the opportunity to participate in ARIN
governance if they wish.

is arin going to a flat rate scheme from scaled while ripe is
contemplating going from flat to scaled?

Not quite - we’ve always had an “ISP” fee schedule that is proportional to total number resource holdings.  In ARIN’s 
case, ours is based on the highest Registration Services Plan (RSP) category that covers both IPv4 and IPv6 resources 
held.

The specific table is here - https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/2022_fee_schedule/ - and start with 
annual fees of $250 per year for smallest category and then increase by a factor of two with each 4x increase in total 
IPv4 number resources held (or each 16x increase in IPv6 resources)

The 2022 fee change is moving the end-users from a flat per-block maintenance fee structure to the same scaled fee 
structure (i.e. the RSP fee categories) that our ISPs have been paying for years.

 i would be the proverbial fly on the wall if/when you and hans petter exchange lessons learned.

You’re unlikely to ever get such a chance, as those conversations don’t happen (they wouldn’t be particularly 
appropriate due to the risk of depriving the community of the diversity of thought and pricing independence to which it 
is entitled…)

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers