On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 9:51 AM Steve Noble <snoble@sonn.com> 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/