On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 9:51 AM Steve Noble <[email protected]> wrote: > William Herrin wrote on 9/16/22 9:28 AM: > > Actually, the rules HAVE changed. Under the new fee schedule, every > > payer except AS-only payers are eligible to vote. ARIN still has a lot > > of structural deficiencies but in this particular respect they made a > > major improvement. > > I appreciate your response, I remember all of the discussions around > this change and the positive/negative aspects of it, but it did not > correct the disenfranchisement of ASN only holders who are customer and > do have to pay for services which are voted on and affected by the voting.
True. But the practical effects of ARIN policy on AS numbers are so minimal that with a choice between paying the AS annual fee and the minimum service member annual fee, it makes sense to pay the smaller fee. The AS number annual fee is a tad heftier than it ought to be for the work reasonably expected of ARIN to operate the relevant registry components. I expect they're lumping more into general overhead than they really ought to and then spreading the overhead among all payers. But c'est la vie. A lean, mean machine ARIN is not, at least not any more. Regards, Bill Herrin -- For hire. https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
