Hello Stephen ,
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
On 07 Apr 2010 16:17, Gary E. Miller wrote:
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Owen DeLong wrote:
If you are an end-user type organization, the fee is only $100/year
for all your resources, IPv4 and IPv6 included. Is that really what
you would call significant?
As always, the devil is in the deetails.
From: https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html#waivers
The proper URL for the below quote is
<https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html#legacy_fee>.
"The annual fee will be $100 USD until 2013, at which time ARIN's Board
of Trustees may choose to raise the fee."
Note that the LRSA specifies that the fee increase cannot be more than
$25/yr.
Then scroll down to the fees you can expect in 2013. Especially note
how the small guys get hit much harder per IP.
This is the section at
<https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html#waivers>.
That section applies only to _allocations_, which are what ISPs get.
The maintenance fee for _assignments_, which is what end users orgs get,
has always been $100/yr. No waiver is necessary, and AFAIK the BoT has
made never made any noises about increasing the assignment maintenance fee.
And, really, even if the fee for your /48 (X-small category) assignment
maintenance fee went up to $1250/yr to match the current allocation
maintenance fee table, would that really be "significant" in the grand
scheme of things?
S
Try that fee while trying to make a living in a depressed econimic
region JUST for an ipv4 /24 Assignment . I don't make enough to cover that '.'
.
Sorry this is getting to be a too frequent line of .... out of eveyones
mouth & does not cover the facts for those who don't have the $ resources to
break past this line of thinking to be able to forge ahead with plans to expand
.
Twyl , JimL
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