Re: [Idr] new ID on expansion of private use ASN range

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

> The answer probably is something along the lines of "ARIN charges $500
> for a registration and $100 per year for 'maintenance'".  Modulo
> waiving part of this if you're already paying for address space.  (And
> I'm only picking on ARIN because they're the first site I checked.)
> 
> Frankly I'd rather see the RIRs have *4-byte* AS number pricing in
> line with the cost of registering a domain ($20 US) and then kill this
> draft.  (Note, also spoken as someone who was going to author a
> similar draft.)

the real cost is address space.  if you are gonna play this game fix the
real problem.

and, i sure hope you are not proposing to us this 'private' AS space as
a cheap replacement for real AS space.  the capex you save will be
overwhelmed by the opex of maintaining a new global AS space co-joined
with the traditional one.

randy