If you want to be an LIR and have the right to manage other people's addresses on their behalf, as well as being a full member of the organisation with voting rights and so on. If you just need addresses, that's not you.
replyYour ARIN link is broken.
fixed arin link: https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/
replyIt's basically $275/year to have an AS and some PA assignment with no intermediary LIR. In Europe, you have to pay €1800/year without an ASN included. Each resource is billed separately. If you go with a middleman (another LIR) you usually have to pay 200€+ (with taxes) for 2 resources (ASN and PI space)
Good to know. As someone on the ARIN side, I always found the fees reasonable.
replyYou can get better deals with the right LIR. As a hobbyist it was cheaper for me to go with a RIPE LIR over ARIN.
replyIt's not comparable. You will lose your AS and PA if your sourcing-LIR goes out of business or increases prices against you. It's ab big difference to become a LIR or just a downstream customer.
replyYou shouldn't lose an ASN or PI block, they are registered to you at RIPE, only managed by the LIR and can be transferred to another LIR in exceptional or routine circumstances. I think you'll have to pay another fee though.
replyA PA block is just part of a LIR's block that they give you permission to use, so I doubt you could keep that if they went out of business, but maybe RIPE has a procedure for it.
For a hobbyist it’s perfectly fine, I think? I’ve been doing this for years. If I was a major corporation I might be more concerned.
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