[address-policy-wg] Re: Revised 2007-01 set back to Review Phase (Direct Internet Resource Assignments to End Users from the RIPE NCC)

Hi,

>>> (PA has a recurring, for most networks not too small price tag
>>> attached, PI is basically free)
>> Is there a way around the scoring algorithm I don't know about?
> PI is currently scored in the year of assignment, and then never again,
> so it's not "fully free", but after the initial cost, it is - so the
> term "basically free" is appropriate.

And even this initial cost are only scoring points. I work (among 
others) for a medium sized business ISP, with a /16, a /18 and a /32 
IPv6 assigned a few years ago. This equals to around 500 scoring points 
which pushes us in the medium sized LIR category.

http://www.ripe.net/membership/billing/procedure.html says I can use up 
to 864 scoring points before becoming a (more expensive) large LIR. This 
difference of 350 to be used scoring points allows me to request 
something around a /20 (16 * (2008-1992)) _per_ _year_ without paying a 
single cent more to RIPE. And hell, pay 1500 EUR more for one year 
(large category) and have ~5500 scoring points available. That's an 
insane amount of address space that will be totally free after one year.

Bernhard