[170507] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN board accountability to network operators (was: RE:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sander Steffann)
Fri Mar 28 10:03:57 2014
From: Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl>
In-Reply-To: <7AF4D303-E188-417B-BFA3-6A8D799F419F@delong.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:03:33 +0100
To: Owen Delong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>, John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi Owen,
> Compare and contrast the costs of being a PI holding end-user in the =
RIPE region to those in the ARIN region and the difference becomes much =
more noticeable.
Yeah, RIPE NCC is definitely much cheaper for PI: no initial =
registration fee of =E2=89=A5$500. The maintenance cost is $100/year vs =
=E2=82=AC100/year (=C2=B1$137) so there is a little difference there. =
The $37 difference will take at least 13.5 years to make up for the $500 =
though. And that is just for up to a /22. The $4000 initial fee for a =
/16 PI would take you more than a hundred years :)
So yes: for PI the difference is much more noticeable, in favour of the =
RIPE NCC :)
Cheers,
Sander
