[members-discuss] Response from Board on Charging Scheme Comments

Hi,

This is in my opinion by far the best proposal yet! Thanks for putting the numbers together.
"Have more = pay more" is the way to go, not categories, not flat. IPs and ASNs are public resources and people should pay for their consumption (e.g. like water, electricity, gas).
On the mailing list, there were many requests for such a model, so I cannot understand why RIPE NCC hasn't yet offered such a model - especially as all other registries (ARIN/Afrinic (stepwise(#IPs)) and APNIC (log(#IPs)) go into that direction.
The linear approach is easy to understand (Flat Fee per IP) and IMHO the best approach against hoarding or "optimizing".

I would like to separate the discussion between "Charging Model" and "Ripe NCC Budget". Budget can be handled separately (and in the AGM); this is only about the "Charging Model".

I'd take the current RIPE NCC expenses, split that into EUR per currently allocated IPv4/32, IPv6/48 and ASN and base contributions on individual LIR allocations/assignments. e.g:

Current budget: 44M EUR

IPv4/32:  836 M (93549 prefixes) -> 26M EUR / 836M
  0.031 EUR per /32
  7.92  EUR per /24
  31.67 EUR per /22
  253.3 EUR per /19
  51.9 kEUR per /8

IPv6/48:11801 M (26351 prefixes) -> 7.3M EUR / 12G
  0.000062 EUR per /48 "free"
  40.46 EUR per /32
  324 EUR per /29

ASN/1: 39255 -> 11M / 39k
  276.5 EUR per ASN

=> This change is neutral to the RIPE budget; i.e. members pay the same on average, smaller members pay less, larger members pay more. Very easy!


Regards,

Claudius



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On 12.04.24 06:21, ROSKOMNADZOR LIMITED wrote:
> Proposal about resources based fee was been rejected early - because RIPE doesnt offer unclear scheme.
> 
> Nor category based, its must be flat resource based - i.e. linear.
> 
> Not sure about rules allow it, but Im sugget to scheme with direct impact on resources. (and can offer Excel calculator for that)
> 
> TOTAL = amount of entries IPv4 + amount of entries IPv6 + amount of entries ASN
> 
> For current RIPE allocations its will be
> 
> IPv4 SHARE (%)        58,7771%
> IPv6 SHARE (%)        16,5582%
> ASN  SHARE (%)        24,6648%
> 
> When RIPE saying - need 44M EUR funds in budget - okay!
> 
> Then:
> - IPv4 SHARE - 25 861 909 €
> - IPv6 SHARE -  7 285 594 €
> - ASN  SHARE - 10 852 497 €
> 
> What are next?
> 
> Next is making minimal countable resource:
> - IPv4 - is 1 x IPv4/32
> - IPv6 - is 1 x IPv6/48
> - ASN  - is 1 x ASN
> 
> Just now we can make calculation of membership fee based on this values
> 
> For example:
> 
> - Small LIR with 1 ASN, 1 IPv4 /24 and 1 IPv6 /32 - will be billed as: 7,91 € (IPv4) + 40,46 € (IPv6) + 276,48 € (ASN) = 325 €/YEAR
> 
> - Some "old" small LIR with 1 ASN, 2 IPv4 /22 and 1 IPv6 /29 - will be billed as: 63,29 € (IPv4) + 323,69 € (IPv6) + 276,48 € (ASN) = 663 €/YEAR
> 
> Its doesnt have any "corruption" or "lobby" variable, only fair share - have more = pay more, have less = pay less.
> 
> Very simple.
> 
> Are you agree? (Hope you reply)
>