Why RIR's have different Annual Fee ?

indiavps

As per my understanding APNIC and ARIN, calculate Annual Membership fee based on the size of the approved IP's.

ARIN seems have different slabs based on IP Block Size and APNIC for sure uses formula Feev4 = 1050x1.308(log2(Addresses)-8)

Not sure how RIPE NIC use IP block size in their annual membership fee calculation.

Is the pricing only based on their policies and operation cost or are there any special reason for different pricing structure ? Do you feel ARIN is cheap ?

patrick7

RIPE does not charge with the amount of IP adresses. They currently charge 1400€/y per LIR. It does not matter if the LIR owns /9 or /22.

indiavps

@patrick7: RIPE does not charge with the amount of IP adresses.

Wow.. so RIPE should be the most cheap in terms of annual fee for users with larger IP block. So should assume this is the possible reason why may RIPE providers offer large IPv6 for free.

charlie

@jphost said:

On RIPE the IP address is free, but for request ip pool, you need to pay RIPE membership fee (like an exclusive club).

linuxthefish

@jphost said:
Wow.. so RIPE should be the most cheap in terms of annual fee for users with larger IP block. So should assume this is the possible reason why may RIPE providers offer large IPv6 for free.

Unless you are indian, then you only have to pay $374 yearly membership fee for the indian version of APNIC, IRINN!

http://www.irinn.in/pages/static/services_membership_fees.html

aglodek

@charlie said: On RIPE the IP address is free, but for request ip pool, you need to pay RIPE membership fee (like an exclusive club).

Yes, except for one small detail: no matter the justification, max allocation to new RIPE members is 1x /24.

SpartanHost

@aglodek said:
Yes, except for one small detail: no matter the justification, max allocation to new RIPE members is 1x /24.

Their site still seems to say a /22 everywhere I look: https://www.ripe.net/publications/ipv6-info-centre/about-ipv6/ipv4-exhaustion/reaching-the-last-8 unless they've recently announced it's a /24 now somewhere.

'RIPE NCC Membership Benefits' at the bottom of: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/become-a-member

patrick7

Min. / Max. initial allocation size @ RIPE is still /22

aglodek

@SpartanHost said: Their site still seems to say a /22 everywhere I look: https://www.ripe.net/publications/ipv6-info-centre/about-ipv6/ipv4-exhaustion/reaching-the-last-8 unless they've recently announced it's a /24 now somewhere (...)

Sorry, can't seem to edit my post above. My mistake. Thanks for correcting me.

indiavps

@linuxthefish said:

you only have to pay $374 yearly membership fee for the indian version of APNIC, IRINN!

Looks IRINN also charge Annual fee based on block of IP's like APNIC http://www.irinn.in/showfeeCalc.action . I was researching few other National RIR's, all seems charge based on approved IP blocks. As @patrick7 said RIPE at 1400€/y may be the cheapest.