On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 10:29 AM John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 16 Sep 2022, at 1:22 PM, William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 10:12 AM John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Note - if the reason that you are paying "significant money” to ARIN is > >> because you have more than one ASN > >> (and therefore are paying $150 per-ASN annual maintenance fee), I would > >> suggest you review if you qualify for > >> a /24 IPv4 block from the ARIN waiting list (and applying asap if that’s > >> the case), as your annual ARIN payment > >> would drop upon receipt (i.e. you would become a 3X-Small registration > >> services plan customer paying $250/year > >> in total rather than paying the per-ASN maintenance fees), and also be > >> able to opt into general membership and > >> thus participating in voting if desired. > > > > Or get an IPv6 /48 which could be fulfilled immediately (no waiting > > list) and have the same impact of making you a 3x-small services plan > > customer paying $250/year total. > > Thank you Bill – obviously another excellent option… > > (He could even do both, since the RSP plan category is based on the largest > of the two resource holding – so that > when an IPv4 /24 is eventually issued, his overall customer category would > still remain at 3X-Small, i.e. $250/year)
Hi John, He might not qualify for an IPv4 /24 under current ARIN policy but with AS numbers in use it's a near certainty that he qualifies for an IPv6 /48 with little effort. Regards, Bill Herrin -- For hire. https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
