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.
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 -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network&System Engineer | 3237 Holden Road | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Fairbanks, AK. 99709 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+