[address-policy-wg] Comment on IPv4 depletion rate for proposal 2015-05

Dear Radu-Adrian,

Thank you for your question.

To provide IPv4 address space to non-members would require a policy 
change, as current policies only allow the registration of IPv4 
allocations to LIRs and IPv4 assignments to IXPs.

However, RIPE policies cannot define fees for resource registration. 
Such fees are calculated by the RIPE NCC and approved by the membership. 
The basis for this calculation is the financial resources needed to 
provide the services described in the RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget.

I hope this clarifies your question.

Kind regards,
Marco Schmidt
Policy Development Officer

On 10/05/2016 16:40, Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016, at 14:12, Aled Morris wrote:
>> I am troubled by the new members joining RIPE purely to obtain IPv4
>> address space.
>>
>> Perhaps (shields up!) RIPE could simply offer /22 for purchase at the same
>> price as membership (€3,400 i.e. joining fee + 1 year subs) to anyone who
>> wants one since they can get one anyway by joining.
>>
>> It would save the admin overheads and would identify members as those
>> actually committed to performing as LIRs.
> Great idea !
> I would actually like to have NCC's opinion on that one.
> For now, I have the impression that the administrative overhead is just
> a pretext to be able to say "nonono, we DO NOT sell IPv4 addresses".
>
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> Radu-Adrian FEURDEAN
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