[External] Normal ARIN registration service fees for LRSA entrants after 31 Dec 2023

Fri Sep 16 17:29:37 UTC 2022

> On 16 Sep 2022, at 1:22 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 10:12 AM John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
>> Note - if the reason that you are paying "significant money” to ARIN is because you have more than one ASN
>> (and therefore are paying $150 per-ASN annual maintenance fee), I would suggest you review if you qualify for
>> a /24 IPv4 block from the ARIN waiting list (and applying asap if that’s the case), as your annual ARIN payment
>> would drop upon receipt (i.e. you would become a 3X-Small registration services plan customer paying $250/year
>> in total rather than paying the per-ASN maintenance fees), and also be able to opt into general membership and
>> thus participating in voting if desired.
> 
> Or get an IPv6 /48 which could be fulfilled immediately (no waiting
> list) and have the same impact of making you a 3x-small services plan
> customer paying $250/year total.

Thank you Bill – obviously another excellent option… 

(He could even do both, since the RSP plan category is based on the largest of the two resource holding – so that 
when an IPv4 /24 is eventually issued, his overall customer category would still remain at 3X-Small, i.e. $250/year) 

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers