Re: questions about ARIN ipv6 allocation

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

On 6 Dec 2021, at 2:07 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com<mailto:owen () delong com>> wrote:
On Dec 5, 2021, at 9:03 AM, John Curran <jcurran () arin net<mailto:jcurran () arin net>> wrote:

Owen -

The RSA and LRSA agreements are identical, however, it is true that you would lose legacy holder resource status (for 
those IPv4 resources issued to you before ARIN’s formation) if you consolidate to a single Org with one bill under the 
RSA.

I see no difference in the status of legacy holder resources vs. resources.

I care not about that.

However, there is (to some extent) a limit on how badly the board can elect to screw me financially year over year in 
the LRSA which simply does not exist in the RSA. To claim that an agreement which limits my fee increases year over 
year to $25 is identical to an agreement which has no cap on fee increases is ludicrous at best, and certainly a bit 
disingenuous, if not worse.

Owen -

If you value the $25 per year cap in fee change, then feel free maintain a separate LRSA for your legacy resource 
services. If you’d prefer to consolidate under a single RSA and pay a single fee based on the larger IPv4 or IPv6 
category based on total holdings in each, that’s also available to you – the choice is yours.  If you choose to 
consolidate, then you will indeed have to pay the same fees as everyone else – even if a hypothecated future change to 
the fee schedule for that service category is greater than $25 annual.  If you consider paying the same fee as other 
ARIN customers for your legacy resource services to be a form of hardship, then maintain a separate LRSA agreement for 
them if you wish,

Back to the question raised in the original post:  organizations that just have ARIN IPv4 number resources can obtain a 
corresponding-sized IPv6 block without increasing their registration services category and corresponding ARIN annual 
fee.

Please direct followups on ARIN fee structure back to the ARIN-ppml mailing list as this thread is wandering far afield 
from the issue raised by the original post.

Thanks,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers