Re: LIR as a Service

On 11 December 2015 at 10:21, Wichert Akkerman <wichert(at)wiggy(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> On 11 Dec 2015, at 00:04, Bill Allombert <Bill(dot)Allombert(at)math(dot)u-bordeaux(dot)fr> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:09:03PM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
>>> Pricing structure:
>>> https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-620
>>>
>>> * One-off sign-up fee 2 000 EUR (approx. 2 188 USD)
>>> * annual fee of 1 600 EUR (approx. 1750 USD)¹
>>> * per assignment fee of 50 EUR (approx. 54.71 USD).
>>> ¹ Annual charges are announced by RIPE on annual basis, but used to go
>>> down during the past few years. see RIPE-620 for details
>>
>> Indeed, this is for 2015, for 2016 see
>> https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-645
>> the annual fee is only 1 400 EUR.
>
> With SPI being an American registered organisation, shouldn’t it register with ARIN instead?
>

ARIN has exhausted IPv4 allocations in September =) so no. And whilst
registered in NYC, SPI and the member projects do operate globally.

http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/plotend.png

AFRINIC would be best, but potentially legally challenging. Hence RIPE
is currently the best bet.

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Regards,

Dimitri.