Charging Scheme Task Force Meeting Minutes (24 March 2025)
24 March 2025
Attendees: Victor Bolaños Guerra, Carlos Friaças, Raymond Jetten, Ulf Kieber, Cynthia Revström, Clara Wade
Apologies: Pavel Odintsov, Alex de Joode, Alexandru Doszlop, Ivaylo Josifov, Alptekin Sünnetci, Piotr Strzyżewski, Sebastian Brossier
Chairs: Peter Hessler, Ondřej Filip
RIPE NCC staff: Fergal Cunningham, Simon-Jan Haytink, Karla Liddle-White, Daniella Coutinho, Athina Fragkouli
1. Welcome
Executive Board Chair, Ondřej Filip, welcomed everyone and asked if there were any additions to the agenda. An item was added to the AOB.
2. Review of Draft CSTF Report amendments including new sections
The group reviewed amendments to the draft report, including newly added sections. A new section on categories was introduced, consolidating all relevant content into one place and included principles. A suggestion was made on keeping categories equitable and to clarify the upper limits of category sizes, ensuring that the highest category did not reflect the median resource holding.
It was agreed that while the report should not mirror the level of detail found in meeting minutes, relevant data points and statistics that informed the task force’s conclusions should be referenced throughout the document, not just in an appendix. The revised draft report was expected to be ready for review by the next meeting in two weeks.
3. Cost Levels Relating to Transfers and M&As
The Chair led a brief discussion on how these costs should be represented in the report and in future recommendations. The group discussed the text updates related to transfer fees and mergers/acquisitions (M&As), ensuring an equity-based structure and possible tiered approaches. It was noted that frequently transferred block sizes (e.g. /24 and /22) should fall into the more modest cost tiers.
The group referred to the need to define the risks associated with proposed principles. Chief Financial Officer, Simon-Jan Haytink, said that defining risks on the principles at this stage would be a vague exercise. Instead, it was suggested that the group first finalise the principles, after which the RIPE NCC would develop an initial draft Charging Model in line with those principles. Risks could then be assessed within the context of that model.
4. Legacy Address Space, including charges for non-contracted Legacy space holders
Discussion then turned to the section regarding non-contracted legacy resource holders and related principles. The RIPE NCC’s Chief Legal Officer, Athina Fragkouli, agreed to draft a principle related to charging non-contracted legacy resource holders.
6. Governance and Charging Scheme Approval Process
The group discussed the process of how the charging scheme is proposed and approved. There was general agreement that the General Meeting (GM) should retain authority to approve the charging scheme.
It was agreed that the report should clarify that all TF recommendations remain subject to GM approval and that no changes to the current decision-making process were being proposed.
7. AOB
Due to conflicting dates with public holidays, it was proposed and agreed to reduce the number of upcoming meetings from three to two, rescheduling the meetings to take place on alternate weeks.