On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 9:54 AM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 9:49 AM Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
While that was inevitable at ARIN’s inception and continued for many years, it is not currently the case that there are more legacy customers than paying customers
i am easily confused. so just to keep my nouns the same over history, could you phrase that in terms of resource holders, members and non-members; where members == signed a *RSA? thanks.
Hi Randy,
Probably not since ARIN "members" are the specific class of ARIN registrants who have received an "allocation" of IP addresses. Everybody else, including folks who have received an "assignment" of IP addresses falls into the "end user" or "legacy" categories and are not "members."
And since I wasn't clear: both "members" and "end users" have signed an RSA with ARIN and pay an annual fee while "legacy" organizations have not and do not. So, for example, the 8000 ASN-only organizations that John mentioned are paying, RSA-signatory end-users not members. They often have "legacy" addresses under a different organization name, hence the need for the AS number. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin bill@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/