[ripe-list] New RIPE Labs Article - Building a stable future for the RIPE NCC

Hello.

Current RIPE Charging Scheme based upon variable - LIR count. Its nice, 
but its very unstable value. Its hard to make long term budget policy in 
so variable situations.

Opposite to LIR count, we have IPv4 count, IPv6 count and ASN count - 
what are pretty stable, because have specific end amount and cant be 
changed year-by-year in large scale.

My proposal is:

1) RIPE need to make some reserve funds for compensate some looses due 
sanctions, banking troubles and etc... for example 5% of total budget.

2) Change Charging Scheme from LIR based to Resource based and spare 
RIPE budget spending in equal parts. Big LIRs with large amount of 
resouces - will be pay more (in equal share), LIRs with small amount of 
resources - will be pay less (in equal share).

We are do some investigation and most largest IPv4 holders in RIPE 
region is:

orgID - Legal name - Country - IPv4 allocations - IPv4 count
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de.telekom	Deutsche Telekom AG	DE	31	28972544
fr.telecom	Orange S.A.	FR	53	23655168
uk.microsoft	Microsoft Limited	UK	135	16572416
fr.sfr	Societe Francaise Du Radiotelephone - SFR SA	FR	119	16313344
ru.rtk	PJSC Rostelecom	RU	468	11123712
uk.bt	British Telecommunications PLC	UK	43	10948608
es.telefonica	TELEFONICA DE ESPANA S.A.U.	ES	43	10806016
uk.ntli	Virgin Media Limited	UK	41	9378816
fr.proxad	Free SAS	FR	8	8871936
it.tin	Telecom Italia S.p.A.	IT	10	7996416
it.interbusiness	Telecom Italia S.p.A.	IT	28	7898112
uk.bskyb	Sky UK Limited	UK	23	7240704
fr.bouygtel	Bouygues Telecom SA	FR	16	7098368
uk.tm	EE Limited	UK	17	7037952
tr.telekom	Turk Telekomunikasyon Anonim Sirketi	TR	13	6923264
se.teliase	Telia Company AB	SE	54	6706432
de.mediaways	Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co.OHG	DE	22	6414336
se.swipnet	Tele2 Sverige AB	SE	72	6316032
de.arcor	Vodafone GmbH	DE	24	6136832

If you open their financial reports you will be - their companies 
without issue can be proportional equal fee for their resources in own.

On 18.04.2024 13:17, Remco van Mook wrote:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I’d like to draw your attention to an article that was just published on RIPE Labs, about building a stable future for the RIPE NCC.
> 
> As it touches on some very foundational aspects all across the various working groups and NCC membership, I thought it important to share, and I would very much like to ask everyone for their input and ideas.
> 
> In order to not spread the discussion too much across the various mailing lists, I suggest that we use the general RIPE list (which I’ve put into the reply-to field of this email.
> 
> I’m currently in the process of organising a BOF during RIPE 88 on this topic as well and am looking forward to a constructive discussion!
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Remco van Mook
> RIPE NCC Executive Board
> 
> 
>