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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Why does Sprint have address filters again?
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Karl Denninger wrote: > > >Charging reasonable costs (ie: the kind of fee that the Driver License > > >bureau charges, ergo, $10 or so) for the first ASN is reasonable. > > > > And the DMV breaks even on that, right? > I don't care if its $50; even that's reasonable. > > $500 is punitive. This really gets to the crux of the matter. How much does it cost for ARIN to do the work that it needs to do? How should we divide the costs up amongst the various fees? How much extra should be charged over costs to allow for growth, and for unforseen future costs? It has always been public knowledge that ARIN would review its costs after the first year and reduce its fees if they prove to be to high. Only half a year has passed so far. While it can be lots of fun to speculate on the fee structure using real dollar amounts I think we have to be careful to remember that in the absence of actual lower costs, a reduction in any one fee has to be accompanied by an INCREASE in some other fee. And even if the fee structure itself is left unchanged, all fees will be decreased if there is a real difference between estimated and actual costs. Personally, I'd rather keep the focus of these discussions away from money and specific dollar figures because it tends to obscure the real goals of ARIN which are to do a darn good job of allocating/registering the unique numbers that are absolutely critical to the Internet's operational infrastructure. IMHO, quality of ARIN's services should come first. If we can increase quality and simultaneously decrease costs, then that is great but you can't provide top quality service without top quality employees. -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: [email protected] http://www.memra.com - *check out the new name & new website*
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