Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

[Bruce Robertson <bruce () greatbasin net>]

But I pay for all that already, so it seems that using ARIN is a no-brainer.

Zaid Ali wrote:
> It's not entirely free since you have to pay an AS maintenance fee and if you are assigned a netblock directly then you pay maintenance on that also. I would rather maintain everything in one place rather than paying an extra $495 to RADB if my BGP peers can source it from ARIN. 
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> Zaid
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Robertson" <bruce () greatbasin net>
> To: "NANOG list" <nanog () nanog org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:07:31 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?
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> Is the ARIN registry free, then?
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> Jon Lewis wrote:
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> > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Zaid Ali wrote:
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> > > Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects 
> > > (and pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be 
> > > verified with a whois.
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> > If your objects are all maintained via another routing registry 
> > (ARIN's, altdb, etc.) and you don't care to maintain objects with 
> > radb.ra.net, then you do not need to pay RADB maintenance fees.
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