ARIN board accountability to network operators (was: RE: [arin-ppml] [arin-discuss] Term Limit Proposal)

[sander at steffann.nl (Sander Steffann)]

Hi Owen,

> Compare and contrast the costs of being a PI holding end-user in the RIPE region to those in the ARIN region and the difference becomes much more noticeable.

Yeah, RIPE NCC is definitely much cheaper for PI: no initial registration fee of ?$500. The maintenance cost is $100/year vs ?100/year (?$137) so there is a little difference there. The $37 difference will take at least 13.5 years to make up for the $500 though. And that is just for up to a /22. The $4000 initial fee for a /16 PI would take you more than a hundred years :)

So yes: for PI the difference is much more noticeable, in favour of the RIPE NCC :)

Cheers,
Sander