Re: Normal ARIN registration service fees for LRSA entrants after 31 Dec 2023 (was: Fwd: [arin-announce] Availability of the Legacy Fee Cap for New LRSA Entrants Ending as of 31 December 2023)

[Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

> Moving to RIPE is not an unalloyed good; Europeans invented bureaucracy,
> and RIPE pursues it with vigor.  And getting the above treatment may
> require firmly asserting to RIPE that you want it, rather than accepting
> the defaults.  But their motives are more benevolent than ARIN's toward
> legacy resource holders; RIPE honestly seems to want to gather in legacy
> resource holders, either as RIPE members or not, without reducing any of
> the holders' rights or abilities.  I commend them for that.

I have to say that my experience transferring to RIPE-NCC was quite pleasant
and involved quite minimal bureaucratic hassle. I did have to select “Legacy
without contract” on one form and reassert that in reply to one email, but that
was about the extent of it.

YMMV.

Owen