Since they are a non-profit, they could also cut executive salaries. As of 2019, John was being paid over $546,000 to respond to posts on mailing lists.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/541860956 Key Employees and Officers Compensation JOHN CURRAN (CEO AND PRESIDENT) $546,029 RICHARD JIMMERSON (COO) $347,120 JOHN SWEETING (SR. DIRECTOR, RSD) $279,352 MARK KOSTERS (CTO) $276,796 On Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 9:17 PM Mark McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > Our rate hike alone covers the cost of responding to concerned > organizations questioning why such a massive rate hike is needed that > targets the smallest half of ARIN’s user base. You realize the only reason > people are complaining (and you’re on these forums defending it) is because > such a few increase is almost unheard of, correct? Of course the > mega-carriers aren’t on here complaining - they’re paying less than *1%* of > what /24 holders do. Just wait until the actual bills go out. > > ARIN’s “a /8 ISP assignment costs just as much as a /24 end user” > reasoning is ridiculous. > > Not only is it untrue, it’s counterintuitive to reward organizations to > request and maintain large assignments of a finite resource when there is > absolutely zero incentive to return address space that isn’t needed. It’s > “taxing” the small organizations to fund the larger ones. If you took into > account that most large address space owners hold numerous blocks, their > per IPv4 resource cost only gets less and less. > > Again, I ask how ARIN feels it costs more than $1000 to respond to each > ticket. Id absolutely love to see how ARIN is losing money on our account. > > I’m all for per / transaction fees - pay for what you use. But what ARIN > has passed with zero outreach is counterproductive to everything ARIN is > supposed to represent - fairness and a steward of limited IPv4 resources. > > Seeing the CEO of ARIN on these forums advocating for the behemoths of the > internet at the cost of small organizations is disheartening. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Sep 18, 2021, at 4:03 AM, John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 17 Sep 2021, at 11:40 PM, arin-ppml <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Why not let them choose? They don’t really get any benefit from being > an LIR member and since they aren’t running a local registry even though > they are an ISP, why force them into the LIR category? > > > > They don’t need to have a relationship with ARIN, but opt to do so in > order to have number resources in the registry system that are independent > of their service provider. That means a contract with ARIN for services > and thus sharing in the cost recovery model. > > > > You can assert that ARIN's costs are predominantly the result of “LIRs” > but that doesn’t reflect reality – many of our services and functions are > equivalent for an entire address block and only a small set of them are > related to subdelegation functions. > > > > Furthermore, there are costs that ARIN incurs as a result of customers > that have no relation at all to the customers individual utilization of > services or their choice to subdelegate, but still must be recovered (e.g. > costs of responding to customers on mailing lists…) > > > > FYI, > > /John > > > > John Curran > > President and CEO > > American Registry for Internet Numbers > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ARIN-PPML > > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > > the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). > > Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: > > https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml > > Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues. > > > _______________________________________________ > ARIN-PPML > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). > Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: > https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml > Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues. >
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