At the recent AMM there was some discussion of fees and RPKI. I asked a question on behalf of the university I work for and was told that if we wanted a Route Origination Authorization (ROA) for the /16 we hold as a Legacy Internet Resource Holder (see RFC 1117) then we needed to bring that under the APNIC umbrella as a Full Member.
I pointed out that would cost me extra $8000 per year ($2600 => 10600) and I'd have trouble persuading my management that represented good value.
I'd point out that our university is pretty focussed on cost - at least one member of the EC challenged me on the "small" amount of money given that we made NZ$18 million last year - the latest published figures for 2012 (http://www.vuw.ac.nz/annualreports/2012/financial-overview.pdf) show (in 000s)
Surplus for the year Â18,780Â (Decrease) in revaluation reserve (19,700) Total comprehensive income/(loss) for the year (920)
I also had some thoughts about using RIPE as the registry as it would appear to be cheaper.
So I thought I'd check it out. If we were in the RIPE region then we'd pay NZ$3400 - an additional NZ$800. I can sell that to my management.Â
So right now from a straightforward value for money point of view we'd like to be in the RIPE region.
So while I was looking at this I wondered if we were a strange special case. It seems we're not and the numbers make interesting reading. It seems that if you had a choice of which registry you went to then if you hold any more than 3 x /22 of address space then you should join RIPE and if you are a small LIR then you should move the other way.
So I'm wondering is there any sound technical reason why I can't choose which registry I go to?