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

* Gert Doering:

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 09:08:45AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Bernhard Schmidt:
>> 
>> > (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.

Yuck.  And our RIPE DB guy actually knew this; maybe I should have
talked to him earlier.

Anyway, this particular way of pricing resources (or adminstrative
overhead) certainly had a rationale at one point.  The question is
whether it still applies.  The situation may look pretty bad (as Shane
wrote), but the alternative options may be even worse (in our
experience, it's difficult to hand back PA resources---with PI, waste
is at least visible).

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