[87026] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com)
Tue Nov 29 05:20:24 2005
In-Reply-To: <200511281648.jASGmD1O025998@tislabs.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:21:53 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> >The fees are not charged for past services that were
> >received for free, only for future services.
>
> So you are saying that legacy space holder who signed a memberhsip
> agreement would not owe the usual yearly fee associated with their
> legacy space holdings but only those fees associated with any
> future address space allocations/assignments?
Of course they would pay the normal membership fee.
In ARIN, this fee is roughly related to the size of the
address space holding, but only roughly. It is a flat
fee for the annual membership subscription and it covers
all the whois listings, changes to whois entries,
in-addr.arpa hosting, ip6.arpa hosting, and new address
allocations for the whole year.
The fee is not directly related to the address holding,
i.e. ARIN members do not pay a fee for the addresses
which are allocated to them. The subscription fee is
higher for larger allocations because larger organizations
use more services more often. The holder of a class C only
pays $1250 per year which seems a reasonable business
expense for supporting the RIRs. And the holder of a
class B would pay only $9,000 and a class A holder would
pay the maximum rate of $18,000.
It's hard to imagine an organization who can afford to run
a network using BGP to announce a class C block and not
be able to afford $1250 per year.
--Michael Dillon
