> On Sep 16, 2022, at 10:37 , William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 10:29 AM John Curran <[email protected] > <mailto:[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 > > Under current policy structure, it’s pretty difficult to qualify for a /48 and not qualify for a /24.
If you’ve got ASNs in use, you almost certainly qualify for a /24 at this point. Owen
