[apnic-talk] APNIC fees and RPKI

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Subject: [apnic-talk] APNIC fees and RPKI
From: Andy Linton <asjl at lpnz dot org>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:39:01 +1300
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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?